List of antonyms from "prehensile" to antonyms from "prepare for"


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Definition of the day : « prehensile »

  • 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