Word Meanings - SUBPREHENSILE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Somewhat prehensile; prehensile in an inferior degree.

INFERIORLY
In an inferior manner, or on the inferior part.
SOMEWHAT
1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
INFERIOR
Junior or subordinate in rank; as, an inferior officer. Inferior court , a court subject to the jurisdiction of another court known as the superior, or higher, court. -- Inferior letter, Inferior figure , a small letter or figure standing at the
INFERIORITY
The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as, inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth. A deep sense of our own great inferiority. Boyle.
PREHENSILE
Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey. (more info) of, seize; pre- + hendere , akin to
DEGREE
A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree. In the 11th century an opinion began to gain ground in Italy, that third
SUBPREHENSILE
Somewhat prehensile; prehensile in an inferior degree.