Prehensile is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.
You can make 465 anagrams from letters in prehensile (eeehilnprs).
1781-85; French préhensile (coined by Buffon), equivalent to Latin prehens(us) (see prehension) + French -ile -ile
The tip of its tail, strange to say, is prehensile, just like that of a spider-monkey.
This is particularly true of the prehensile power of the foot.
The tail is very long and prehensile, like that of the sapajous.
They form, in some sort, the prehensile organs which seize the aliment.
The prehensile part of the tail is naked and of extreme sensibility.
The Parson drew up his "prehensile muscles," as he called them.
What is wanted is the comprehensive hand, and not the prehensile tail.
And where is his monkey that first lost the prehensile power to climb trees?
Not all the monkeys of America possess this prehensile power of tail.
The first of the sub-families includes the monkeys with prehensile tails.
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