Prehensile used in a sentence

Prehensile in a sentence as an adjective

Some have prehensile ends some just a sharp end.

Whales have prehensile penises, so while it may seem a bit odd to us, they do have fine manipulators.

In other words, prehensile tails are totally awesome.

I believe that the lack of prehensile appendages is a bigger problem than aquatic environment.

With an adequately strong prehensile tail, older people would be able to use it as a sort of a tripod leg to keep themselves upright with less risk of falling.

Because I ended up doing a bit of reading about dolphins earlier this week, I thought I'd share a bit of trivia in this thread: dolphins also have prehensile penises.

I have simulated this using cardioid microphones while wearing headphones, and I would cheerfully sacrifice a good deal of social standing for a pair of working prehensile ears.

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.

Why did everything need six legs and four eyes, and why didn't Na'vi hair evolve to be prehensile when they started needing to shove it down the data tubes of irate wildlife?As an aside, having all those links in the text is very distracting.

I can’t even express these things properly, because 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 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.

For all we know, there are much easier ways to describe physics than through complicated systems of equations, but our minds may not be capable of symbolically interpreting the world in a way that allows us to use those tools, any more than were capable of a tool that requires the use of a prehensile tail.

> Why did everything need six legs and four eyesFor the same reason most animals on earth have 4 legs and two eyes, common genetic ancestry; It was actually a nice touch.> and why didn't Na'vi hair evolve to be prehensile when they started needing to shove it down the data tubes of irate wildlifeThey already had hands, a prehensile hair connection wouldn't likely offer enough advantage to become a primary trait.