prehensile
adjective /prɪˈhensaɪl/
/prɪˈhensl/
(specialist)- enlarge image(of a part of an animal’s body
) able to hold things动物肢体的一部分 能抓住东西的;缠绕性的 - the monkey’s prehensile tail
猴子的长卷尾
Collocations DictionaryPrehensile is used with these nouns:- tail
词源late 18th cent.: from French préhensile, from Latin prehens- ‘grasped’, from the verb prehendere, from prae ‘before’ + hendere ‘to grasp’. - the monkey’s prehensile tail