prehensile• The Spider Monkey's prehensile tail, used as a fifthlimb.• Jehana was playing with one of the cats, a Suristani with a prehensile tail.• They use prehensile tails as fifth hands, dangling to reachsturdierbranches or freshgreengrowth.
Originprehensile
(1700-1800)Frenchpréhensile, from Latinprehendere“to seize”