Crossword-Solution: PREHENSILE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Prehensile | n. | Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey. |
We have 17 clues for the answer “PREHENSILE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Like some tails | 1 answer |
| Like an opossum's tail | 1 answer |
| Like a monkey's tail | 1 answer |
| Good for grasping, as possums' tails | 1 answer |
| Adjective for a kinkajou's tail. | 1 answer |
| Adapted for grasping | 1 answer |
| grabby | 8 answers |
| ADAPTED FOR GRASPING ESPECIALLY BY WRAPPING AROUND AN OBJECT | 10 answers |
| ACRIMONIOUSLY LEAVE FAT, GRASPING OLD POLITICIAN | 10 answers |
| ADAPTED TO A MOIST HABITAT | 10 answers |
| A SPORT ADAPTED FROM JUJITSU AND SIMILAR TO WRESTLING | 10 answers |
| ADAPTED TO WANDERING OR ROAMING | 11 answers |
| ADAPTED (TO) | 12 answers |
| Itchy | 23 answers |
| desirous | 35 answers |
| Covetous | 47 answers |
| grasping | 48 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PREHENSILE (5)
What I want to do is put up in her room one or two good prints representing actual men who were so delightful in their day that all the young men she is likely to see now will seem tepid and prehensile.
Her power, in the American air, seemed to have lost its prehensile attributes; the smooth wall of rock was insurmountable.
See Avicular.] (Zo”l.) See prehensile processes on the cells of some Bryozoa, often having the shape of a bird's bill.
How had he ever imagined the Road would permit him to make any money? Anger was not in him yet; no rousing of the blind, white-hot wrath that leaps to the attack with prehensile fingers, moved him.
But poverty was bringing out in her all those meanest and most selfish and most brutish instincts--those primal instincts of human nature that civilization has slowly been subjecting to the process of atrophy which has lost us such other primal attributes as, for example, prehensile toes and a covering of hair.
Quotes with PREHENSILE (3)
I don’t want to be human. I want to see gamma rays, I want to hear X-rays, and I want to smell dark matter. Do you see the absurdity of what I am? I can’t even express these things properly, because I have to — I have to conceptualize complex ideas in this stupid, limiting spoken language, but I know I want to reach out with something other than these prehensile paws, and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me. I’m a machine, and I can know much more. — John Cavil…
Brother Cavil: In all your travels, have you ever seen a star go supernova? ... I have. I saw a star explode and send out the building blocks of the Universe. Other stars, other planets and eventually other life. A supernova! Creation itself! I was there. I wanted to see it and be part of the moment. And you know how I perceived one of the most glorious events in the universe? With these ridiculous gelatinous orbs in my skull! With eyes designed to perceive only a tiny fracti…
We know that there are many animals on this continent not found in the Old World. These must have been carried from here to the ark, and then brought back afterwards. Were the peccary, armadillo, ant-eater, sloth, agouti, vampire-bat, marmoset, howling and prehensile-tailed monkey, the raccoon and muskrat carried by the angels from America to Asia? How did they get there? Did the polar bear leave his field of ice and journey toward the tropics? How did he know where the ark w…
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Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1956–2020).