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Definition of Nonprehensile
1. Adjective. Not prehensile.
Definition of Nonprehensile
1. Adjective. Not prehensile. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nonprehensile
Literary usage of Nonprehensile
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... comb-feet," in which the eût pairs of similar feet, all branchial and
nonprehensile, arc furnished IX. 11* with setae arranged like the teeth of a comb, ..."
2. The Fur Traders and Fur Bearing Animals by Marcus Petersen (1914)
"... and places the Marmosets with their thirty-two teeth, clawed toes, and
nonprehensile tails, in the family ..."
3. Introduction to Zoology: A Guide to the Study of Animals ; for the Use of by Charles Benedict Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty Davenport (1902)
"... and the flat-nosed, prehensile-tailed American apes; still higher are the
small- nosed, nonprehensile-tailed apes, including the baboons, FIG. 305. ..."
4. Elements of Zoology: To Accompany the Field and Laboratory Study of Animals by Charles Benedict Davenport, Gertrude Anna Crotty Davenport (1911)
"... prehensile-tailed American apes; still higher are the small-nosed, nonprehensile-
tailed apes, including the baboons, mandrills, and macaques. ..."
5. Webster's Academic Dictionary: A Dictionary of the English Language by Noah Webster (1895)
"A small South American monkey, having loug aoft fur, u. la hairy, nonprehensile
tail. Mar'mot !,i -v n. [It. mar- moita.] 1. A rodent about the size of a ..."
6. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission by United States Fish Commission (1896)
"... or large chelipeds are nonprehensile, armed with stout, scattering set!«, of
which those seen on the inner margins of the meros and ischium are the ..."
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