Antonyms for prehensile

Grammar : Adj

Spell : pri-hen-sil, -sahyl

Phonetic Transcription : prɪˈhɛn sɪl, -saɪl

Definition of prehensile

Origin : 1771, from French préhensile "adapted for grasping" (Buffon), from Latin prehensus, past participle of prehendere "to grasp, to seize," from prae- "before" (see pre-) + -hendere, related to hedera "ivy," via notion of "clinging," and cognate with Greek khandanein "to take in, hold" (see get (v.)).

As in acquisitive : adj eager to obtain knowledge or things
As in piggish : adj greedy
As in covetous : adj greedy; very desirous
As in desirous : adj aspiring, hopeful
As in grasping : adj greedy
As in greedy : adj desiring excessively

Example sentences :

And where is his monkey that first lost the prehensile power to climb trees?
Extract from : « Life: Its True Genesis » by R. W. Wright

Not all the monkeys of America possess this prehensile power of tail.
Extract from : « Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found » by Mayne Reid

What is wanted is the comprehensive hand, and not the prehensile tail.
Extract from : « The History of Dartmouth College » by Baxter Perry Smith

The tip of its tail, strange to say, is prehensile, just like that of a spider-monkey.
Extract from : « The Animal World, A Book of Natural History » by Theodore Wood

They form, in some sort, the prehensile organs which seize the aliment.
Extract from : « The Ocean World: » by Louis Figuier

The tail is very long and prehensile, like that of the sapajous.
Extract from : « Buffon's Natural History. Volume IX (of 10) » by Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon

The first of the sub-families includes the monkeys with prehensile tails.
Extract from : « Natural History in Anecdote » by Various

The prehensile part of the tail is naked and of extreme sensibility.
Extract from : « Natural History in Anecdote » by Various

The Parson drew up his "prehensile muscles," as he called them.
Extract from : « A Cadet's Honor » by Upton Sinclair

This is particularly true of the prehensile power of the foot.
Extract from : « Degeneracy » by Eugene S. Talbot

Synonyms for prehensile

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