Words similar to prehensile
Example sentences for: prehensile
How can you use “prehensile” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
For our simian ancestors in the trees, falling from branch to branch was a normal mode of locomotion, but you had better have a prehensile paw for grabbing the crucial limb at the last moment.
A tireless self-promoter (a friend described him as "felicitously prehensile"), Brady was camera-shy, placing himself on the margins of photographs in which he appeared or, more often, with his back turned.
There is an interesting Australasian area, with Bennett wallabies and a bintubong (also called “bearcat”), a large marsupial with a prehensile tail that sits on a tree stump watching the visitors pass by.