prehensile.

Adapted to seize or hold objects.

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• prehensile tail

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Its prehensile tail gripped the branch.

A prehensile appendage reached through the bars.

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Primary category: horror. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a morphological or medical classification. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.