prehensile
adjective/prɪˈhensaɪl/
/prɪˈhensl/
(specialist)- (of a part of an animal’s body) able to hold things
- the monkey’s prehensile tail
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPrehensile is used with these nouns:- tail
Word Originlate 18th cent.: from French préhensile, from Latin prehens- ‘grasped’, from the verb prehendere, from prae ‘before’ + hendere ‘to grasp’.Definitions on the go
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