Sentence examples for prehensile from inspiring English sources

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Tendrils are prehensile and sensitive to contact.

Arboreal animals (e.g., squirrel) use the tail for balance and as a rudder when leaping; in some (e.g., spider monkey, chameleon) it is prehensile, a fifth limb for increased mobility and stability.

South America, which extends over much the same latitudes as Africa, has none of these animals; it instead has pumas, jaguars, tapir, llamas, raccoons, opossums, armadillos, and monkeys with broad noses and large prehensile tails.

The New World monkeys show a considerable advance over primitive primates in tactile sensitivity, but they possess less functionally effective hands in prehensile terms than Old World monkeys.

All have large, nearly naked ears, a long prehensile tail, and either a median stripe on the face or bold markings on the back.

Tails in the other species are prehensile, slender, and longer than the head and body.

Chameleons and some other lizards have prehensile tails, which also aid in grasping branches.

Other animals include the agouti (a short-haired, short-eared, rabbitlike rodent), quenck (collared peccary; a wild hog), tattoo (an armadillo), prehensile-tailed porcupine, and iguana.

The largest species, the prehensile-tailed skink (Corucia zebrata), reaches a maximum length of about 76 cm (30 inches), but most species are less than 20 cm (8 inches) long.

The two African species of rhinoceroses are the black or prehensile-lipped rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) and the white or square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum).