0 (of parts of the body) able to hold on to things, especially by curling around them:
a prehensile tail
The prominent role of the thumb during prehensile tasks is due to its position and mobility, thereby affording the hand its dextrous ability.
There are several components that make up prehensile movements.
These processes were and continue to be involved in constructing representations of transitive prehensile actions, not gestural communication.
Servos et al. (1992) studied prehensile movements in healthy subjects with binocular and monocular vision.
Whipple traced the evolution of papillary patterns from prehensile mammals through the lower primates and up to humans.
As the precision grip is most commonly employed in natural manipulation (60% of all common dexterous actions4), conventional prostheses have tended to implement this prehensile form.
He may be a little acquisitive and unduly prehensile, possibly, but he is intelligent and wide awake.
The pectoral fins are prehensile, helping the fish move along the sea bed.
