non-prehensile

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 differ very much in appearance and habits.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various

These diminutive monkeys have long, non-prehensile tails, and they have a silky fur often of varied and beautiful colors.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various

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.

As I Please 1946

It is quite extraordinarily non-prehensile in quality and substance nothing is gripped and maintained and developed; it is like the passing of a lax hand over the surfaces of disarranged things.

An Englishman Looks at the World 1906

Thus l'Encuerado, whom the evening before we had seen braving tigers, crocodiles, and wild cattle, now trembled at the mere idea of facing an inoffensive animal, which was only a relation of the peccaries, with a snout terminated by a non-prehensile proboscis, yet to which his imagination attributed certain demoniac qualities.

Aventures d'un jeune naturaliste. English Lucien Biart 1863

Wallace, in a residence of four years, saw twenty-one species -- seven with prehensile and fourteen with non-prehensile tails.

The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America James Orton 1853

Its non-prehensile tail, peculiar feet, and different arrangement of teeth, pointed out to naturalists that it entered into a genus distinct from the American opossums; and to this genus the name of

Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. Adam White 1848