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Definition of Prehensile
1. Adjective. Adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object. "A monkey's prehensile tail"
2. Adjective. Having a keen intellect. "Poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"
3. Adjective. Immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth. "Prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"
Similar to: Acquisitive
Derivative terms: Avarice, Avarice, Avariciousness, Covetousness, Grasping, Greed, Greed, Greediness
Definition of Prehensile
1. a. Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey.
Definition of Prehensile
1. Adjective. (zoology) Able to take hold of and clasp objects; adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prehensile
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prehensile
Literary usage of Prehensile
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Technic and scope of cast gold and porcelain inlays with a chapter on by Herman E. S. Chayes (1918)
"And when the labial ridge is present in a cuspid, the last named point angle may
be referred to as the antero-labio-in- cisal, or prehensile (21), ..."
2. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"The tail is clothed with hair and not prehensile. ... Their tail is prehensile.
Some of them are scaly. These animals inhabit the Moluccas, where they live ..."
3. Mammalia: Their Various Orders and Habits Popularly Illustrated by Typical by Louis Figuier, Guillaume Louis Figuier (1870)
"prehensile Porcupine are characterised by a partly bare, prehensile tail, and
hooked, and sharply-pointed claws, which enable them to climb trees. ..."
4. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia: With Figures of All the Species by Charles ( Darwin (1851)
"... pedunculated ; capitulum carina ; mouth and cirri prehensile. bearing a pair
of elongated scuta and a rudimentary coralline : 20 fathoms. Mus. ..."
5. The Comic History of the United States: From a Period Prior to the Discovery by John D. Sherwood (1870)
"His prehensile Habits claw out the Eyes of several Measures. — How he foraged on
his Political Enemies, and turned his Troops of Friends into the Public ..."
6. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1861)
"... has been published (London, I860). springs, and in some South American monkeys
it is prehensile and used as a 5th hand in hanging from trees ; in the ..."
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