Usage examples (8)

• Adjective : a prehensile tail
• These diminutive monkeys have long, non-prehensile tails, and they have a silky fur often of varied and beautiful colors.
• A thin-boned, ancient-Egyptian type of face seems to predominate: narrow hips are general, and slender non-prehensile hands like those of a lizard are everywhere.
• The remainder of the American monkeys have non-prehensile tails, like those of the monkeys of the Eastern hemisphere; but they consist of several distinct groups, and...