Prehensile

Word PREHENSILE
Character 10
Hyphenation pre hen sile
Pronunciations /pɹɪˈhɛn.saɪl/

Definitions and meanings of "Prehensile"

What do we mean by prehensile?

Able to seize, grasp, or hold, especially by wrapping around an object. adjective

Having a keen intellect or powerful memory. adjective

Seizing or grasping; taking and holding; adapted for prehension; especially, fitted for grasping or holding by folding, wrapping, or curving around the object prehended: as, the prehensile tail of a monkey or an opossum. Also prehensory. See cut above, and cuts at Cebinæ, marmose, musk-cavy, opossum, and spider-monkey.

Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping. adjective

Able to take hold of and clasp objects; adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object. adjective

Adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object adjective

Having a keen intellect adjective

Immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth adjective

Able to take hold of and clasp objects; adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object.

The ability to grab objects Urban Dictionary

The ability to grab an object Urban Dictionary

Once used to describe an object that grasps like a tail, this is now used much like the word "Smuf" (as a noun, verb, adjective and so on). It is also commonly used as a substitute word in colloquial phrases. Urban Dictionary

A clitoris that can grip objects. a.k.a. PC Urban Dictionary

The act of sticking your tongue out while doing anything that requires more than average thought or concentration. Urban Dictionary

One who cannot poop in a toilet in a reasonable manner may be said to have a prehensile rectum. A prehensile appendage is one that is capable of grasping or conscious manipulation. One with a Prehensile rectum is purposefully able to miss a large target such as a toilet. the term originates from a post by Billy Rubin on the StraightDope forums in 2001. Urban Dictionary

When you can maneuver your pubic hairs at will. Urban Dictionary

The act of sticking your tongue out while doing anything that requires more than average thought or concentration. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Prehensile

The word "prehensile" in example sentences

Funny, I read your misspelling as "prehensile", and ignored the absurdity of such an adjective. ❋ Palm Beach Post (2010)

"There are some kinds, too, that have what is called prehensile tails; that is, tails by which they can hang themselves to the limb of a tree, and which they use with nearly as much ease as they can their hands. ❋ Madeline Leslie (1854)

When it lashed out its prehensile tongue, Declan eagerly punished it with another onerous twist of the blade, unable to disguise his satisfaction. ❋ Kresley Cole (2011)

Natasha Henstridge, though, did not have a tail and prehensile feet, which are always things I look for in a woman. ❋ Unknownbinaries (2010)

He was hanging upside down from a prehensile tail on a high branch of the oak tree, hands folded across his tweed jacket. ❋ Thomas Pluck (2011)

Their tongues were prehensile, stretching inches long. ❋ Kresley Cole (2011)

The trust they worried most about was “the Money Trust.” Captained by J.P. Morgan, “the financial Gorgon,” the Money Trust was skewered in court and in print by future Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis, subjected to withering Congressional investigations, excoriated in the exposés of “muckraking” journalists, and depicted by cartoonists as a cabal of prehensile Visigoths in death-heads. ❋ Steve Fraser (2011)

When asked about proof of God's views of homosexuality in male seahorses, Biblical scholar Marshall Drummond quoted the passage: "And if a male seahorse lie with a male seahorse, as with female seahorses, both of them have committed marine abomination; their blood shall be upon their bony plates and prehensile tails." ❋ Spencer Green (2011)

The male possesses the prehensile organs and the superior strength. ❋ Unknown (2010)

On the fatal morning, as Frank Moon's score gathers force, we discover Samsa in bed on his back, his long fingers and prehensile toes waving helplessly above him, like the multiple feet of an insect. ❋ Unknown (2011)

And by virtue of his prehensile organs and superior strength he ravishes the females of his species and goes his way. ❋ Unknown (2010)

My character is a detective who was chosen to help solve superhuman crimes, and one morning, he finds he has gained a mutation, he has turned into what is essentially a human alligator, complete with green skin, scales, and a prehensile tail. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There were many times when a hideous day (or month, or year) at the job felt a little better when I could look myself in the eye (using a mirror, as opposed to a prehensile eyestalk) and tell myself that at least I made my word quota. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Oh, and he forgot to mention, the farmer was also a "prehensile moron". ❋ Simon Jenkins (2011)

I have known Brad since grade school and I can testify that if he has a prehensile tail, it is either a recent growth or he hid it very well. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The species operates in mass numbers, using humans as hosts to new soldiers, with razor sharp claws, a retractable second-mouth and a prehensile tail like a lance. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The circle behind his head is a set of banana telephones (he can reach them with his prehensile tongue), and also a tribute to the 1960 version of "The Time Machine." ❋ Frankwu (2009)

I saw [this chick] [pick up] [a dildo] with her tits! They must be prehensile ❋ PrehensileCock (2004)

[elephants] have prehensile [cocks] ❋ Piss Down Ur Chimney 16 (2005)

[A bird] in [the hand] is worth two in the [prehensile]. I do not com-prehensile this concept. ❋ Myownshuriken (2010)

it's just a [rumour] that [kylie] can [shuffle] cards with her prehensile clitoris but she can pick up £50 notes. ❋ TheWestHamfan (2003)

John's trying to find the shift key, his [prehensile tongue] is a [throwback] to [early man's] pre-keyboard days. ❋ Philo T. Farnsworth (2014)

Look, F***[wicket],I know you got your problems. Do you have a prehensile rectum that you can extend on a stalk [like a snail's] eye and aim? How in the name of all that is [unholy] do you get poop everywhere? ❋ Jaybirdlaw (2015)

guy #1"man that guy has some prehensile pubes." guy #2 "yeah he [fed] me [pretzels] the other day with them!" random girl "that must [feel good] in the bed" ❋ Thereisnotenough2dowhatIwanted (2016)

John's trying to find the shift key, his [prehensile tongue] is a [throwback] to [early man's] pre-keyboard days. ❋ Philo T. Farnsworth (2014)

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