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Prehensile
"Prehensile" in a Sentence (8 examples)
Giraffes have tough prehensile tongues.
The giraffe has a prehensile tongue.
The elephant's trunk is so prehensile that it can pick up a coin from the ground.
A tapir is a mammal with prehensile lips for eating tree foliage.
Many New World monkeys have prehensile tails.
Other unusual characteristics of a seahorse are its upright stance, with its prehensile tail — which allows it to hold on to coral and other sea objects. Their tiny size, usually less than 15 centimeters, gives them a "jewel-like" appearance. And seahorses don't have the scales of typical fish; instead they have a dark, exo-skeleton of bony plates for protection and camouflage.
The octopus's tentacles are prehensile.
Some monkeys have prehensile tails which they use to pick things up.
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