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:
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.
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.
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.