Word Meanings - PREHENSILE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey. (more info) of, seize; pre- + hendere , akin to

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• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• GRASP
  1. To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of. Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff. Shak. 2. To lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly acquainted or conversant with;
• SEIZURE
  1. The act of seizing, or the state of being seized; sudden and violent grasp or gripe; a taking into possession; as, the seizure of a thief, a property, a throne, etc. 2. Retention within one's grasp or power; hold; possession; ownership. Make
• ADAPTNESS
  Adaptedness.
• PREHENSILE
  Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey. (more info) of, seize; pre- + hendere , akin to
• SEIZIN
  Possession; possession of an estate of froehold. It may be either in deed or in law; the former when there is actual possession, the latter when there is a right to such possession by construction of law. In some of the United States seizin means
• ADAPTIVE
  Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting. Coleridge. -- A*dapt"ive*ly, adv.
• ADAPT
  Fitted; suited. Swift.
• ADAPTATION
  1. The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness. "Adaptation of the means to the end." Erskine. 2. The result of adapting; an adapted form.
• SEIZER
  One who, or that which, seizes.
• MONKEYTAIL
  A short, round iron bar or lever used in naval gunnery. Totten.
• ADAPTORIAL
  Adaptive.
• ADAPTEDNESS
  The state or quality of being adapted; suitableness; special fitness.
• ADAPTER
  A connecting tube; an adopter. (more info) 1. One who adapts.
• SEIZING
  1. The act of taking or grasping suddenly. The operation of fastening together or lashing. The cord or lashing used for such fastening.
• GRASPER
  One who grasps or seizes; one who catches or holds.
• MONKEY-POT
  The fruit of two South American trees (Lecythis Ollaria, and L. Zabucajo), which have for their fruit large, pot-shaped, woody capsules containing delicious nuts, and opening almost explosively by a circular lid at the top. Vases and pots are made
• ADAPTABILITY; ADAPTABLENESS
  The quality of being adaptable; suitableness. "General adaptability for every purpose." Farrar.
• SEIZOR
  One who seizes, or takes possession.
• SEIZE
  To take possession of by virtue of a warrant or other legal authority; as, the sheriff seized the debtor's goods. 5. To fasten; to fix. As when a bear hath seized her cruel claws Upon the carcass of some beast too weak. Spenser. 6. To grap with
• POST-DISSEIZOR
  A person who disseizes another of lands which the disseizee had before recovered of the same disseizor. Blackstone.
• DISSEIZORESS
  A woman disseizes.
• SUBPREHENSILE
  Somewhat prehensile; prehensile in an inferior degree.
• WATER MONKEY
  A jar or bottle, as of porous earthenware, in which water is cooled by evaporation.
• COADAPTED
  Adapted one to another; as, coadapted pulp and tooth. R. Owen.
• REDISSEIZE
  To disseize anew, or a second time.