英 [prɪˈhensaɪl] 美 [prɪˈhens(ə)l]
adj. 适于抓握的；善于领会的
prehensile /prɪˈhɛnsaɪl/
形容词 adapted for grasping, esp by wrapping around a support (尤指通过缠绕住一支撑物)适于抓住的
a prehensile tail
adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object
a monkey's prehensile tail
having a keen intellect
poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men
immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees
同义词： avaricious / covetous / grabby / grasping / greedy
捕握的
... prehend 词根，抓住 prehensile adj.适于抓住的 conprehensible adj.容易了解的 ...
适于抓握的(prehensile), 此释义来源于网络辞典。
... cling v. 紧抓住；舍不得放弃 prehensile adj. 能抓物的，能缠绕东西的 mesh v. 用网捕鱼；齿合 ...
... 缠绕物 entanglement; winding 缠绕性 prehensile 缠绕者 twister ...
A monkey has a prehensile tail.
猴子有能盘卷住东西的尾巴。
A prehensile thumb is not FOR grasping.
可抓拿的拇指也不是为抓拿而存在。
Long and slightly prehensile, but more like the tail of a panther than a monkey.
它们有尾巴。尾巴是细长而且可缠绕的，但比起猴子那更像是猎豹的尾巴。
In comes the prehensile thumb, and the next thing you know you get a colossal earthquake, and the possessor of the prehensile thumb disappears from the earth -which is to say, very possibly the human species will never develop.
就像对人类进化至关重要的大拇指，经历了一场大地震后，如果所有有这种拇指的人都消失了,那么人类就很可能永远不能进化。
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In some alternate plane of the space-time continuum dinosaurs with prehensile claws rule the Earth, and purple monkeys are their servants.
For these moments, her nearly prehensile-looking feet, which have become as much her signature as her extravagant leg extensions, were not quite bare.
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This life in the glittering eye of the prehensile raccoon was what I wanted, and never had I felt so absolutely secure, as if the several phantom images of myself had resolved into the final form of who I was clearly and firmly the Howard Wakefield I was meant to be.