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Перевод: prehensile

[прилагательное]
цепкий; хватательный; приспособленный для хватания

Тезаурус:

1. The Spider Monkey's prehensile tail, used as a fifth limb.
2. The cuscuses are tree-dwelling marsupials of the possum family, with short limbs and prehensile tails.
3. Before the land bridge to North America emerged above the waters once again they had been isolated long enough to evolve as New World monkeys whose modern descendants walk on all fours and many of whom have prehensile tails.
4. They live today with the broad end buried in the sediment, where they forage for food using small prehensile filaments.
5. Note too, the prehensile tail, which allows them to lift the forefront of their bodies on to their back legs to reach even further.
6. Apart from primates, some of the best known tool users among the mammals are the African and Asian elephants, whose prehensile trunk gives them a considerable advantage when it comes to holding and manipulating objects.
7. Where the African species has two opposed prehensile lips or perhaps "fingers" at the tip of its trunk, the Asian has only one on the upper surface.
8. Every time he felt himself sinking, Nails' prehensile toes grasped him by the Adam's apple and lifted his head clear of the water.
9. From the shape of the body, its long tail and thin arm with prehensile fingers it would appear to be a monkey, with what could be a crested helmet on its head.
10. The cat was white, a Suristani with a prehensile tail, and it hung from the lower branch of one of the trees and slashed at the dogs which were clustered below.
11. Mad little Andrea of The Darling Buds is pictured on the sleeve of "Sure Thing" with various things dangling from her prehensile lips.
12. Looking like huge, animated pine-cones, these unusual animals are covered in large, overlapping scales that extend right down to the tip of the long, prehensile tail.
13. They have evolved separately and thus we discover that monkeys with prehensile tails serving them as an extra hand only come from the New World.