(of a part of an animal’s body )动物肢体的一部分 able to hold things 能抓住东西的;缠绕性的 the monkey’s prehensile tail 猴子的长卷尾
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPrehensile is used with these nouns:- tail
Word Originlate 18th cent.: from French préhensile, from Latin prehens- ‘grasped’, from the verb prehendere, from prae ‘before’ + hendere ‘to grasp’.