Giraffes have tough prehensile tongues.
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Prehensile
//pɹɪˈhɛn.saɪl//
Synonyms for "prehensile" (46 found)
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4 entriesderived from
1 entrieshas context
1 entriesrelated to
3 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
23 translations across 19 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- хватателен adj (able to take hold of objects)
Catalan
1 entries- prènsil adj (able to take hold of objects)
Dutch
1 entries- grijp adj (able to take hold of objects)
Finnish
1 entries- tarttuma adj (able to take hold of objects)
French
2 entries- préhensif adj (able to take hold of objects)
- préhensile adj (able to take hold of objects)
Galician
1 entries- prénsil adj (able to take hold of objects)
Hungarian
1 entries- kapaszkodó adj (able to take hold of objects)
Icelandic
1 entries- grip adj (able to take hold of objects)
Indonesian
1 entries- melilit adj (able to take hold of objects)
Irish
2 entries- greama adj (able to take hold of objects)
- inghreama adj (able to take hold of objects)
Italian
1 entries- prensile adj (able to take hold of objects)
Macedonian
1 entries- префатен adj (able to take hold of objects)
Manx
1 entries- yn-ghreimmee adj (able to take hold of objects)
Occitan
1 entries- prensil adj (able to take hold of objects)
Polish
1 entries- chwytny adj (able to take hold of objects)
Portuguese
1 entries- preênsil adj (able to take hold of objects)
Russian
2 entries- хвата́тельный adj (able to take hold of objects)
- це́пкий adj (able to take hold of objects)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- prehensilni adj (able to take hold of objects)
Spanish
2 entries- prensil adj (able to take hold of objects)
- prensor adj (able to take hold of objects)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
The giraffe has a prehensile tongue.
Source: tatoeba (8552467)
The elephant's trunk is so prehensile that it can pick up a coin from the ground.
Source: tatoeba (10351296)
A tapir is a mammal with prehensile lips for eating tree foliage.
Source: tatoeba (10890252)
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