Adjective : a prehensile tail. From Dictionary.com.
She must speak and she must speak with prehensility, for not even her thumbs would stop him a second time. From Wordnik.com. [Even Cowgirls Get The Blues]
All their statesmen learn the irresistibility of the tide of custom, and have invented many fine phrases to cover this slowness of perception, and prehensility of tail. From Wordnik.com. [English Traits (1856)] Reference
All their statesmen learn the irresistibility of the tide of custom and have invented many fine phrases to cover this slowness of perception, and prehensility of tail. From Wordnik.com. [VI. English Traits. Manners] Reference
A predatory meat cylinder, rope limbs unrolling, finding a ship’s rail with ghastly prehensility. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2010-03-01] Reference
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