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Sentence Examples The trunk of an Asian elephant is so exquisitely prehensile that it can pick up a dime from a concrete floor. The prehensile tail is muscular at the base, and it is hitched around a branch as an anchor, particularly when descending. The prehensile tail porcupine in South American actually lives in the treetops. Their prehensile tails enable them to grasp branches, especially as they climb downward, and to balance on tree branches. As well as strong claws, tamanduas have powerful prehensile tails to give them additional purchase when climbing. Their tails are long but not prehensile, and their feet are not syndactylous. Nocturnal and arboreal, they clamber up trees and hang from limbs thanks to long prehensile tails and opposable inside toes on their hind feet. Like a monstrous octopus, poverty spreads its nagging, prehensile tentacles into hamlets and villages all over our world. Coendou and Sphiggurus are arboreal animals, with long, spineless, prehensile tails and wide foot pads. The plate in the field guide shows a strange, golden-brown animal with a prehensile tail, hook-like claws and a funny snub nose. His tiny arms windmill in the air and he starts to fall, but I catch him with my prehensile tail, barely hard enough to cut into his clothes. A tail is present and may be long or vestigial, but it is never fully prehensile as in many cebids. They can hang by this prehensile tail alone so that their hands and feet are free to do other things, for example eating food. This animal has a prehensile tail, which means it lives in the treetops. All have large, nearly naked ears, a long prehensile tail, and either a median stripe on the face or bold markings on the back. Tails in the other species are prehensile, slender, and longer than the head and body. These molluscs have a foot modified into prehensile tentacles and a muscular funnel. This tree dweller uses its long prehensile tail to help it move from branch to branch. Due to its prehensile fruit the species has spread over an area considerably greater than its native distribution. Superficially this species differs from the common marsh bedstraw in being smaller and having a prehensile bristly stem and a three-parted corolla. Show More Sentences Buy from Amazon.co.ukIT IS said that when the good burghers of Amsterdam were first presented with a rhinoceros armoured, horned, three-toed, with a prehensile lip spectators shook their heads in disbelief. The other, dwarfed and prehensile, might in its uncanny silhouette have been an imp of darkness from the nether regions. The body was small, but fitted with two bunches of prehensile organs, like long tentacles, immediately under the mouth. Some tails are prehensile, as in the Eurasian harvest mouse, and the fur on the tails can vary from bushy to completely bald. Some lizards such as chameleons have prehensile tails, assisting them in climbing among vegetation. It can clamber through and cling to the seaweed stalks with its prehensile pectoral fins. Many arboreal species, such as tree porcupines, silky anteaters, spider monkeys, and possums, use prehensile tails to grasp branches. The movable and prehensile part of the slider. Many New world monkeys have a prehensile tails that can feel and grasp. This strange fish with its horse-like head, bony plated body and prehensile tail is thought to have evolved at least 40 million years ago and there are, today, 32 known species of Seahorses. The New World monkeys show a considerable advance over primitive primates in tactile sensitivity, but they possess less functionally effective hands in prehensile terms than Old World monkeys. Tendrils are prehensile and sensitive to contact. New World porcupines, found in both North and South America, are arboreal and climb trees with agility, aided in some species by a prehensile tail. Most species, the larger ones in particular, also have a prehensile tail. Some monkeys have prehensile tails which they use to pick things up. Examples from Classical Literature And where is his monkey that first lost the prehensile power to climb trees? Mr. Aflalo remarks of it that though provided with a prehensile tail, it is little better as a climber than the tailless koala. The tip of its tail, strange to say, is prehensile, just like that of a spider-monkey. They form, in some sort, the prehensile organs which seize the aliment. Not all the monkeys of America possess this prehensile power of tail. What is wanted is the comprehensive hand, and not the prehensile tail. These animals have prehensile tails, the extremity of which, even after death, can support the whole weight of the body. And the cats on the route saw reason to give thanks that prehensile claws had been given them. Like some type of science fiction monster, their head is equipped with powerful prehensile limbs and poisonous fangs. The tail is very long and prehensile, like that of the sapajous. The first of the sub-families includes the monkeys with prehensile tails. The prehensile part of the tail is naked and of extreme sensibility. This is particularly true of the prehensile power of the foot. Martin rendered his signature Everyman, his family, and Fester's sidekick, Karbunckle, tossed upward from a roller coaster run amok, their prehensile bodies akimbo. This was because it was a prehensile foot, more like a hand than a foot. Sure, I've got all the tools and gadgets, but somehow the finished item looks as if it had been completed by someone with poor eyesight and a lack of prehensile thumbs. Find more words! 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