A monkey's prehensile tail. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a prehensile tail. From Dictionary.com.
And this what we call the prehensile tail. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 30, 2002] Reference
Funny, I read your misspelling as "prehensile", and ignored the absurdity of such an adjective. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
HANNA: Exactly and they also have a prehensile tail. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 31, 2003] Reference
This is a South American prehensile-tailed porcupine. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 8, 2001] Reference
They have a-- look at that beautiful prehensile tail. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Jack Hanna Lets the Fur Fly - January 11, 2001] Reference
HANNA: Oh, that's a prehensile tail skink right there. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2007] Reference
HANNA: A skink is a lizard, but it's a prehensile tail. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2007] Reference
What gives the human hand its peculiar prehensile power?. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
But again, it's called a bearcat with a prehensile tail. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 4, 2005] Reference
They're nocturnal as well, Larry, and a prehensile tail. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2002] Reference
So it has its front claws and it's got a prehensile tail. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 26, 2005] Reference
It is always amusing to call a farmer "a prehensile moron.". From Wordnik.com. [Ephemera in Full] Reference
They have a prehensile tail, and they have a very long tongue. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Bo Derek, Tippi Hedren and Betty White Talk About Their Pets - July 7, 2000] Reference
SCARDINA: ... they have a grasping tail, or a prehensile tail. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 13, 2003] Reference
World have six molar teeth, flat noses, and long prehensile tails. From Wordnik.com. [The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality] Reference
HANNA: No. And he has a prehensile tail, if you noticed that, Larry?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 30, 2002] Reference
KING: OK, they're both together, the prehensile and the blue tongue. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2007] Reference
HANNA: Right, oh yes, and that prehensile tail is used for the trees. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 31, 2003] Reference
Again, they have a prehensile tail, spend their entire life in trees. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2006] Reference
Again, with that prehensile tail, they live most their life in trees. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 8, 2001] Reference
This isn't like a prehensile tail you can think of like a lot of animals. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2008] Reference
The North American porcupine you just saw, the prehensile tail porcupine. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2006] Reference
And where is his monkey that first lost the prehensile power to climb trees?. From Wordnik.com. [Life: Its True Genesis] Reference
You can see how it holds around Jackie's neck with its prehensile tail again. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 4, 2005] Reference
Now there's also the South American porcupine, the prehensile tail porcupine. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 31, 2003] Reference
And, again, a prehensile, long tail, where they spend all their life in trees. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Jack Hanna Lets the Fur Fly - January 11, 2001] Reference
The prehensile tail porcupine in South American actually lives in the treetops. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 31, 2003] Reference
HANNA: This animal has a prehensile tail, which means it lives in the treetops. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 8, 2001] Reference
The enemy didn't have scales, tentacles, antenna or prehensile slime-bodies. From Wordnik.com. [Vic's] Reference
And they mainly eat fruits and - There is the tail, prehensile tail, by the way. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2008] Reference
This is a prehensile tailed porcupine, by the way, in Central and South America. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2008] Reference
They have a long tongue and a prehensile tail, live in Central and South America. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2007] Reference
One peculiarity is that the extremity of the dorsal part of the tail is prehensile. From Wordnik.com. [Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886] Reference
And this is an animal, it's a youngster, and they have a real long prehensile tail. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 8, 2001] Reference
By the way, his lizard like qualities mean he has a prehensile tongue ... just saying. From Wordnik.com. [Queer Sighted] Reference
She would untie it and trust entirely to her clinging hands and prehensile moccasined feet. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
They'd have to live in trees to get away from their prey -- see the prehensile tail, there?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Jack Hanna Lets the Fur Fly - January 11, 2001] Reference
All prehensile-tailed monkeys are American, but all American monkeys are not prehensile-tailed. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882] Reference
He reached for the questing, almost prehensile tip of the one that was caught in the neck hole. From Wordnik.com. [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference
Clever PBS brought a lemur, a prehensile-tailed porcupine, and a Chihuahua to the tour Thursday. From Wordnik.com. [Cute animals steal the show at PBS's Press Tour] Reference
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