Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The character of being prehensile.
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Examples
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She must speak and she must speak with prehensility, for not even her thumbs would stop him a second time.
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976
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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.
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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.
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A predatory meat cylinder, rope limbs unrolling, finding a ship’s rail with ghastly prehensility.
Archive 2010-03-01 Blue Tyson 2010
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You are the Opossum of the Future, the ultimate Fittest Survivor of our species, the ripe result of progressive prehensility - all tail! "
Fantastic Fables Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1899
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You are the Opossum of the Future, the ultimate Fittest Survivor of our species, the ripe result of progressive prehensility -- all tail! "
Fantastic Fables Ambrose Bierce 1878
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