| 单词 | prehensile |
| 例句 | Cherrie looked up and caught sight of a dark gray monkey with a potbelly and prehensile tail. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The Brazil nuts they had been counting on to sustain them were in short supply, and the piglike tapir, with its prehensile snout, was elusive. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z It has no legs at all, just a prehensile tail coiled around the boom. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Nancy thought, An angry monkey is like a flying pit bull terrier with five prehensile limbs—these critters can do a job on you. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z What if pregnant women grew temporary prehensile tails? Style Invitational Week 1308: Picture This . . . or These 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z Her steely technique and extraordinary physique — impossibly long, lean and flexible, her cambered feet like prehensile tools — were being talked about even while she was still a student at the Paris Opera Ballet School. Sylvie Guillem?s ?6000 Miles Away? at David H. Koch Theater 2012-03-30T16:19:31Z The prehensile tail that gives the tree-dwelling, fruit-eating species its name exists in this case in the imagination only. Quills and thrills as prodigious porcupine puppet unveiled 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z It's actually prehensile, says Joy, like a monkey's tail; it can stick out in any direction, and that helps whales overcome the problem of not having anything much to grab hold of on each other. TV review: Sperm Whale: Inside Nature's Giants 2011-08-07T21:29:01Z They were exhibited as evolutionary throwbacks: "If you examine their little fingers," claimed the publicity, "you will find that conformation such as to afford them astonishing prehensile power." Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America by Roy Morris Jnr – review 2013-02-15T14:01:01Z Nor is it necessarily true that older political leaders invariably hang on to their seats as if with what Orwell called prehensile behinds. Column: In praise of gerontocracy 2023-05-09T04:00:00Z They mainly live in trees, have long flexible arms, and have long prehensile tails. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z With their prehensile lips — they are distantly related to elephants — they grabbed the lettuce and nibbled. Trying everything, even lettuce, to save Florida’s beloved manatees 2022-04-09T04:00:00Z The genus name comes from the Greek for “prehensile foot,” which the scientists chose because this is the oldest known cephalopod with suckers. Newly discovered octopus ancestor had 10 arms 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z The prehensile tips of a regular harvestman’s legs, which Dr. Sharma compared to fingers with a hundred extra knuckles, were found to be under the control of another gene. How a Daddy Longlegs Grows Such Strange Legs 2021-08-06T04:00:00Z Residents of the White House have had fur and feathers, claws and hooves, scales, stripes and prehensile tails. When the White House Was Full of Claws, Scales, Stripes and Tails 2020-11-14T05:00:00Z Old World monkeys spend time in trees, but lack prehensile tails. Miller & Levine Biology 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z The images of the pig-like calf with a characteristic prehensile snout were captured by a camera trap in the Guapiaçu Ecological Reserve and released in Brazilian media outlets. Birth of wild tapir offers hope for Brazil's endangered ecosystem 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z Despite paleoart memes that made Palorchestes look like a wombat with a long snout, Richards and colleagues write, newer restorations forgo the tapir snout for a prehensile lip and a long tongue. Bizarre Fossil Mammal Was an Ice Age Tree Hugger 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z Yet all that was good went bad, returning to me in the image of my fear, which was physical and prehensile, like a swarming of nerves. In Search of Ancient Morocco 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Mencken dismissed him as a “backwoods demagogue of the oldest and most familiar model — impudent, blackguardly, and infinitely prehensile.” Perspective | Yes, Trump is undignified. Demagogues have to be. 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Trump’s fuming in the White House, boxed in by his self-crippling paralysis of motives, reflects nothing so much as his incapacity to reconcile his psychic needs to project both salesmanlike affability and prehensile domination. How Progressive Era radical Thorstein Veblen helps explain Donald Trump 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z The cuscus hangs on by its fingertips—or its curling, prehensile tail. Asia’s appetite for endangered species is relentless 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Seahorses are bizarre little ocean anomalies, from their tube-shaped snouts to their prehensile tails. The genes that make seahorses so weird 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z It is no accident that the metonym for language is a tongue, not an ear, an eye, or a prehensile thumb. Love in Translation 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z An otherworldly amount of learning seems prehensile around that defensive front. They were stars in Virginia. Now they’re teammates at Alabama. 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z They use those prehensile tails to hang from branches, or to stretch out almost horizontally to reach ants' nests. The world's most-trafficked mammal - and the scaliest 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z But their noses are not prehensile like an elephant’s trunk. How Much Elephant Is In That Mouse? 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z With more than 100,000 distinct bundles of muscle fibers, an elephant’s prehensile trunk is just as dexterous as a human or chimpanzee’s hands. Searching For The Elephant's Genius Inside the Largest Brain on Land 2014-02-26T13:00:15Z "They don't swim very much — they tend to anchor themselves to surfaces like seagrass with their prehensile tails." Why Seahorses Are Shaped Like Horses 2013-11-26T18:45:00.743Z In infancy, bearded saki monkeys use their prehensile tails as a “fifth hand” but lose that grasping ability as they mature. Book Review: Primates of the World 2013-10-11T13:45:02.247Z He scolds her with a tap on the nose when she proffers a millipede in her prehensile lips. How Congo's Guerrillas Are Hurting Congo's Gorillas 2013-08-25T05:05:24Z Like a monstrous octopus, poverty spreads its nagging, prehensile tentacles into hamlets and villages all over our world. Poverty: a specter that still haunts US 2013-06-06T16:56:34Z As body size increased, the importance of the prehensile forelimbs in apprehending and subduing prey increased such that the most modified members of the group are erect-bodied bipeds with stupendously long arms and grasping hands. Welcome to the Squamozoic! 2013-04-01T13:45:05.040Z Unlike the new-world monkeys of the Americas, tails of old-world monkeys are never prehensile, or able to grasp things. Fossils of Earliest Old World Monkeys Unearthed 2013-03-19T16:15:00.393Z Given that the proboscis is used for selective foraging, and hence has to be narrow and prehensile at its tip, it follows that it must typically be the ‘extension’ of a narrow snout. Junk in the trunk: why sauropod dinosaurs did not possess trunks (redux, 2012) 2012-11-20T14:15:00.200Z Monkeys and other primates have two types of tails: non-prehensile and prehensile. Ever wonder why animals have tails? 2012-10-14T23:18:45Z In sea turtles, males have proportionally enlarged, prehensile tails, and the tails of other kinds of turtle are also usually longer and bulkier in males than they are in females. Terrifying sex organs of male turtles 2012-06-09T14:45:00.217Z See prehensile processes on the cells of some Bryozoa, often having the shape of a bird's bill. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z The loss of the prehensile character of the whole foot, and especially of the pedal thumb, is a preparation for civilization. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Trunks are complicated, prehensile organs, and as such they require sophisticated muscular control. Junk in the trunk: why sauropod dinosaurs did not possess trunks (redux, 2012) 2012-11-20T14:15:00.200Z A prehensile tail, on the other hand, can also grab objects and has the ability to act like an extra arm as well as a tail. Ever wonder why animals have tails? 2012-10-14T23:18:45Z Digestive Organs.—The lips are flexible and prehensile; and the membrane that lines them and the cheeks smooth. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" 2012-03-15T02:00:32.250Z A large, darkÐcolored, South American monkey, of the genus Lagothrix, having a long prehensile tail. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z With the elephant the nose is prehensile; with some monkeys the tail performs this office, in part at least. Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind 2012-03-13T02:00:25.633Z The long tail is highly prehensile, thickly furred, with the under surface of the extremity naked. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z Some non-primates, including opossums and lizards, have prehensile tails that help them climb and safely walk along tree branches. Ever wonder why animals have tails? 2012-10-14T23:18:45Z This may be known by its pink and yellow flowers, its very viscid, leafy stems, three to five feet tall, and its lack of prehensile branchlets. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z Funnel-paint unobtrusively laid a wet prehensile toe upon the haft of the knife, but Austin, who was careful not to betray the fact, noticed it. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z With tigers and lions, dogs and cats, the mouth and teeth are prehensile instruments of great force and precision. Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind 2012-03-13T02:00:25.633Z They may, however, be natatory as in many Ostracoda and Copepoda, or prehensile, as in some Copepoda. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z It was as though I might have had a hand or a claw, any prehensile organ by which such things are apprehended, and when I reached it out after Helmeth's children it was withered. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z Primevally our feet had as much tactile intelligence as our hands, and Forbes' almost prehensile big toe pondered that tiny promontory a second; then it hastily explored the glossy surface of Persis' sole. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z They are good climbers and have a prehensile tail that is frequently employed in descending from small branches. Natural History of Cottonmouth Moccasin, Agkistrodon piscovorus (Reptilia) 2011-12-17T03:00:17.963Z Of the ancestors of English literature "Beowulf" is scarcely more significant, and rather less graceful, than our tree-inhabiting forebears with prehensile toes; the true progenitors of English literature are Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Italian, and French. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Her understanding was of the quality beloved by instructors; it had a prehensile trait; it seized things and clung to them. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z What would a monkey do without this caudal appendage and its prehensile quality? Memoir of John Howe Peyton in sketches by his contemporaries, together with some of his public and private letters, etc., also a sketch of Ann M. Peyton 2011-11-15T03:00:20.413Z The prehensile part of the tail is naked and of extreme sensibility. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z Much of that has to do with their oddball appearance, he said, including their prehensile tongues, which can grow to as long as 18 inches, and, of course, their oddly patterned legs. Birth of Bronx Zoo?s M?bura Overcomes Okapi Odds 2011-11-07T22:51:54Z The Opossum has a prehensile tail, as have some monkeys, and in addition a living bag or pouch in which the female carries her tiny young. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z The little man raised his hands, and as he did so, both young men noticed how prehensile and delicate they were—the hands of a master workman. Chance in Chains A Story of Monte Carlo 2011-10-03T02:00:32.613Z The Phantom watched the nimble play of his long, prehensile fingers as he set the table. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z In passing from East to West we lose the cheek-pouch characteristic and we find that of the prehensile tail. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z A few gnarled and distorted trees, whose trunks burst out of the concrete pavement, raised their dust-laden branches, prehensile and unnatural, into the starlight. Mortmain 2011-09-09T02:01:10.217Z If ever a La Rochefoucauld compiles the sententi� of the breakfast-room he must include such apophthegms as these:— Even the most determined opponent of journalism becomes alert and prehensile on the arrival of the paper. Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 31, 1916 2011-08-09T02:00:23.527Z Their existence in transverse ridges on the inner surface of the prehensile tails of monkeys admits of easy justification from this point of view. Finger Prints 2011-08-07T02:00:07.827Z Their toes are, indeed, to a certain degree prehensile, and they can cling with them. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z These animals are larger and more clumsy than the spider monkeys and therefore less agile; they have powerful, prehensile tails. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z In vain you venture to unfold Your false prehensile tale! More Misrepresentative Men 2011-07-20T02:00:14.390Z The man spat upon his hands and rubbed them together—those large prehensile hands. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z It would have been a formidable antagonist to a man under circumstances favourable to the exertion of its strength, and the use of its prehensile and lacerating talons. Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained 2011-07-11T02:00:07.857Z They are only temporarily developed during the breeding-season; and Dr. Günther suspects that they are brought into action as prehensile organs by the doubling inwards and downwards of the two sides of the body. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) 2011-06-27T02:01:01.007Z The first of the sub-families includes the monkeys with prehensile tails. Natural History in Anecdote Illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, etc., etc., etc. 2011-11-12T03:00:32.773Z Their color was of a yellowish tinge; they had long, but not prehensile tails, for the monkeys with prehensile tails are found in America. Lost in the Jungle Narrated for Young People 2011-06-07T02:00:11.183Z The Parson drew up his "prehensile muscles," as he called them. A Cadet's Honor Mark Mallory's Heroism 2011-05-15T02:00:10.653Z These segments are very flexible, and capable of movement in every direction, and are thus developed into arms, prehensile limbs, by which their owner can seize and hold its living prey. Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained 2011-07-11T02:00:07.857Z O keep your beauty like a mystic gem, Clear-surfaced—give no fibre grain of hold To those prehensile amorous bold eyes! Colors of Life Poems and Songs and Sonnets 2011-05-09T02:00:03.610Z In some alternate plane of the space-time continuum dinosaurs with prehensile claws rule the Earth, and purple monkeys are their servants. Apple Pulls Ahead Of RIM In Smartphones 2011-05-06T18:43:25Z A book that was written by a small, prehensile mind, gifted with a limber cleverness, enables us to see him through the eyes of the early nineties. Oscar Wilde A Critical Study 2011-05-04T02:00:14.580Z The hands and feet, too, were more human in shape, though on the latter the hallux still retained its prehensile character, which perhaps is necessary to a tree dweller. Final Proof or the Value of Evidence 2011-04-20T02:00:19.580Z It has yellowish fur, with a face of a violet tinge, and a long and powerful tail, which, however, is not prehensile. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z Writes Pitman: "Killer whales must have prehensile tongues!" Slideshow: Killer Whales Devise Lethal Splash to Catch Seals 2011-04-04T18:22:01Z Here belong the retraction of the face and dental arch, the reduction in size of the canines, the reduction of the jaw muscles, the loss of the prehensile character of the hallux. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z The upper lip of the rhinoceros is somewhat prolonged, and also prehensile to no small degree. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z In fact, it proved altogether impracticable; for the coaita had curled its prehensile tail around his neck in a knot that would have made a hangman envious. Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops 2011-02-10T03:00:44.790Z To such as he the hand has a grasp prehensile as the tail of the American monkey, the arm a tension not known to the sons of civilisation. The Fatal Cord And The Falcon Rover 2011-02-09T03:00:44.167Z The upper and lower margins of the end of the trunk form two nearly equal prehensile lips. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z Anchored by their prehensile tails, they hover in sculptural stillness near coral reefs and sea grass beds until a tiny shrimp or larval fish swims by. How the Sea Horse Got Its Curves 2011-02-01T23:15:00.293Z Tail about as long as the body, and covered with very long hair; not prehensile. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z In the males of the Diplopoda, the legs belonging to one of the anterior segments of the body, or to the posterior segment, are modified into prehensile hooks which serve to secure the female. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z This it actually did, blowing with rage, and projecting its broad muzzle as close as it could to the feet of the hunter, as if to seize him with its elongated and prehensile lips. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z Only Homo sapiens seemed blessed with the idle prefrontal cortex and nimble prehensile thumbs necessary to invent erotic paraphernalia. Findings: Chimpanzees Use Tools to Help Their Sex Lives 2010-05-03T22:01:00Z Like sea horses, pygmy pipehorses have a prehensile tail, but swim horizontally like pipefish. How the Sea Horse Got Its Curves 2011-02-01T23:15:00.293Z Tail longer than the body, tapering, bare on the under surface and prehensile. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 10 "Echinoderma" to "Edward" 2011-01-19T03:00:19.027Z The Complemental males of certain cirripedes live like epiphytic plants either on the female or hermaphrodite form, and are destitute of a mouth and prehensile limbs. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z The neck, too, was longer, and the lip more pointed and prehensile than in the borelé for Hendrik knew the latter well, as it is one of the most common animals upon the frontier. The Young Yagers A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:11:52.020Z He couldn’t hear a cannon if you fired it right under the lobe of his ear, and he does his talking with his prehensile digits. Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager The tail is almost bare and is prehensile, that is, it is capable of holding on to anything which it encircles. Science of Trapping Describes the Fur Bearing Animals, Their Nature, Habits And Distribution, With Practical Methods For Their Capture Some are adapted for climbing trees in quest of the insects on which they feed, having prehensile tails. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli The foot, judging from the condition of the great toe in the fœtus, was then prehensile; and our progenitors, no doubt, were arboreal in their habits, frequenting some warm, forest-clad land. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z Appendages of 2nd pair, strong, usually prehensile and spiny. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" They moved prehensilely, as though cobwebs were in that perfumed air of wealth and security. Whispering Wires The foot of the higher apes, though often spoken of as a hand, is anatomically not such, but a prehensile foot. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" Some are tailed, others, such as the orang, are tailless, but none have prehensile tails like the American monkeys. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli A new bogey had been created, black and hairy with yellow cat's eyes and horrid prehensile arms. Sinister Street, vol. 1 They belong mostly to the Cebidae family, and are provided with prehensile tails. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" Their arms and legs were incredibly long and thin, their toes long and prehensile. The Return of Tharn In Cairo one soon becomes as familiar with feet as one is elsewhere with hands; it is not merely that they are bare; it is that the toes appear to be prehensile, like fingers. Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu The tail is prehensile, by being rolled downwards; it is not brittle and cannot be renewed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" Neck; b, lateral fin of the mantle-sac; c, the eight shorter arms of the fore-foot; d, the two long prehensile arms; e, the eyes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" They have a peculiar dentition, and many of them prehensile tails, and are entirely unknown in other quarters of the globe. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology Although structurally agreeing closely with the paradoxures, its tufted ears, long, coarse and dark hair, and prehensile tail give it a very different external appearance. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" These monkeys, whose native name is sapajou, are the typical representatives of the family Cebidae, and belong to a sub-family in which the tail is generally prehensile. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" The hand itself was a foot and a half broad, with a prehensile thumb at either side. The Enormous Room His hands were small and prehensile, with fingers knotted like a cord; and they were continually flickering in front of him in violent and excessive pantomime. The Technique of Fiction Writing They run over the bunches of dead, dry grass—quite white and blanched—grasping it in their claws, like a monkey with hands and prehensile feet. The Hills and the Vale They were already old, and I was saddened to see it; their fur graying, their prehensile toes and fingers crooked with a rheumatic complaint of some sort, their reddish eyes bleared and rheumy. The Planet Savers Beneath the lowest aperture the two ducts run into the two prehensile antenn� of the larva, which, as usual, terminate the peduncle. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. The male possesses the prehensile organs and the superior strength. The Kempton-Wace Letters Not only the leaves, but the twigs and branches were rapidly twisted off by the long prehensile lips of the animals, and as greedily devoured. The Boy Slaves As it bent awkwardly over me, I saw the flexible, intricately jointed lengths of its long fingers—so delicately built that they were almost prehensile. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 The monster toppled, and flung out its prehensile lizard claws in an instinctive effort to catch itself. The Fifth-Dimension Tube The prehensile antenn� of the larva will presently be described under the male. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. And by virtue of his prehensile organs and superior strength he ravishes the females of his species and goes his way. The Kempton-Wace Letters Tentacle-like protrusions of various size and length seemed to serve as the sensory and prehensile organs. High Dragon Bump Degenerates and more especially epileptics, frequently have flat or prehensile feet and an elongated big-toe with which, like the Japanese, they are able to grasp objects. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso It may be known by its dirty-white woolly fur, its long, naked, prehensile tail, its hand-like paws, its white face and sharp muzzle, and the naked pink and blue ears. Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 Males, two, lodged in cavities on the under sides of the scuta; pouch-formed, with four unequal, rudimentary valves: no mouth: cirri not prehensile. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. They lifted it easily with their prehensile flipper-arms, and with maneuvering of delicate sureness guided it through the gash in the Peary's bow. Under Arctic Ice The old man’s thin prehensile lips shifted his cigar to the other side of his mouth. Counsel for the Defense What is wanted is the comprehensive hand, and not the prehensile tail. The History of Dartmouth College Eighth, the weakness of his lower limbs, the broad, flat foot and low instep, the projecting heel and somewhat prehensile great toe. Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution Complemental Male, attached externally, between the scuta and below the adductor muscle; pedunculated; capitulum formed of six valves, with the carina descending far beneath the basal angle of the terga; mouth and cirri prehensile. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. Speed turned; the elephant was squealing and thrusting out a prehensile trunk among the people. The Maids of Paradise They are the only ground-dwelling marsupials with prehensile tails, which they use for carrying bunches of grasses and sticks. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia This sedentary creature has none of the talents of the acrobat grazing on the swaying foliage of the asparagus; it cannot take a grip with its posterior, turned into a prehensile finger. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles He ignored the snarling, the spitting, the waving of boneless prehensile fingers, as he ignored the heavy gravity and heavier air of the unfamiliar planet. Upstarts Complemental male, attached externally between the scuta, below the adductor muscle; pedunculated; capitulum formed of six valves, with the carina not descending much below the basal angles of the terga: mouth and cirri prehensile. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. Ugh-lomi became a thing of instinct again—strictly prehensile; he held by knees and feet, and his head seemed sliding towards the turf. Tales of Space and Time The animal crushes its prey to death, and can hang from branches by means of its prehensile tail. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia However, his tail is prehensile, and now and then it snakes out through an air duct and yanks food right off the table from under our noses. The Dope on Mars The limbs of the sloth and the prehensile tail of the spider monkey would continually grow shorter, while the legs of the evolving elephant or rhinoceros might lengthen to an undesirable extent. Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin At the extremity of the pointed peduncle, there were seated the larval prehensile antenn�, of which the following measurements are given to show how minute they are. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. But there are other birds whose feet, as some one has said, are good feet, but poor hands—that is, they are not intended for prehensile purposes, only for walking and wading. Our Bird Comrades They have prehensile tails, by which they hold in climbing, as with a hand. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia He clambered dexterously about with his hand-like extremities, aiding his progress with his prehensile tail; but he had not calculated upon the added heaviness which his autumn diet had given him. A Tar-Heel Baron Having repeated this operation several times, the animal advanced to the end of a branch, and seizing it with its prehensile tail, let itself down to the ground. Adventures of a Young Naturalist The irregular growth and splitting of the membrane at the base of the peduncle, where the prehensile antenn� of the larva must originally have been situated, would account for not finding them. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. They live among reeds and long fuci, to which they cling with prehensile tails. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. A numerous group, varying in size from that of a mouse to a large cat, arboreal in their habits and abundantly distributed throughout the Australian region . . . have the tail more or less prehensile. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia The tall giraffe, with his prehensile lip, raised nearly twenty feet in the air, can browse upon these trees without difficulty. Popular Adventure Tales The animal indolently approached a tree of middling size, which it climbed, aided by its prehensile tail. Adventures of a Young Naturalist The action of boiling caustic potash is very useful in cleaning the prehensile antenn�. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. The city had not caught her even though it had reached forth strong, prehensile fingers. Stubble The prehensile form of his lips enables him to pick up with wonderful dexterity even the smallest insect or berry. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America Again more mullet—big fellows these—with yellow, prehensile mouths, which protrude and withdraw as they swim, and are fitted with a straining apparatus of bristles, like those on the mandibles of a musk duck. The Colonial Mortuary Bard; "'Reo," The Fisherman; and The Black Bream Of Australia 1901 It lives on fruit, roots, and insects, and, aided by its prehensile tail, climbs trees with great skill. Adventures of a Young Naturalist The males are placed with their orifices in a little notch in the occludent margin, and their prehensile antenn� at the further end. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. Feline animals, for a similar cause, are more sagacious than hoofed animals, — atonement being to some extent made in the case of the horse, by the possession of sensitive prehensile lips. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 The opossum, with its prehensile tail, marsupial pouch, and cunning ways, stands alone for its singularity among all the animals of the American continent. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America First of all came the kinkajous, beautiful creatures of the weasel family, with glossy brown fur and long, prehensile tails. The Black Phantom At length the "bear," as it is called by the Indians, slid down the trunk, hanging on to it with its enormous claws, its prehensile tail strongly clinging to the sides of the tree. Adventures of a Young Naturalist The prehensile antenn�, at the end of the peduncle, have pointed hoof-like discs: I was not able to make out the other parts. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. Not only the leaves, but the twigs and branches, were rapidly twisted off by the long prehensile lips of the animals, and as greedily devoured. The Boy Slaves Their bodies are long and slender, clothed with soft hair; and their tails, though not prehensile, are nearly twice the length of their bodies. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America In their claw or leg-like form these male antennæ also repeat in the head, the general form of the legs, whose prehensile and grasping functions they assume. Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses He brought the quiet, uncomplaining creature to me by its prehensile tail, and asked me what should be done with or for it. Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers I examined, and carefully compared, the prehensile antenn� with those of the hermaphrodite, and found every part and every measurement the same. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. Its body is about twenty-five inches in length, besides which it has a long prehensile tail, with which it clings to the branches of the trees in which it lives. A Boy's Voyage Round the World The creature’s long tail possesses no prehensile power, but it appears to use it as a lady does a boa,—coiling it round its body to keep itself warm. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America If man had a prehensile tail, it would not detract from his worth. The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour It has a snout which is prehensile, like the trunk of an elephant, but on a very small scale. Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics One more, and the most important special relation between the parasites and the cirripedes to which they are attached, remains to be noticed, namely that of their prehensile larval antenn�. A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. It was a hand such as she did not know, prehensile and tender and dusky. The Lost Girl The crab-eating opossum is a curious creature, about ten inches in length; with a prehensile tail, fifteen inches long, in addition. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America He should have wedded a widow, who could have passed him a prehensile hawser and taken his soul in tow. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen Its tongue is possessed of a peculiarly prehensile power, and with this extended a foot or more beyond the lips, it can sweep in the leaves and twigs for a wide circle around its muzzle. Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys The upper lip overhangs the under by several inches, and is highly prehensile. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire The Parrots, whose feet, though ill-fitted for walking, are perfect as prehensile organs, and which possess large brains with great intelligence, though but moderate powers of flight; and, 3rd. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays In the spider-monkeys, the tail, as a prehensile organ, reaches its highest degree of perfection, and they may therefore be considered as the extreme development of the American type of apes. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America The smallest British quadruped. then a liliputian shrewmouse turned up. he, and he only, has a prehensile tail. "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character These have also prehensile tails; but the power is not so highly-developed in them as in the Sapajous, nor are their tails naked. Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys It is, moreover, highly prehensile, and enables the tapir to seize the roots upon which it feeds with greater ease. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire It is difficult to see why the prehensile power should have been taken away. Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays The feet are formed in the same manner as those of the larger animal, but, to enable it the better to climb among the branches, it possesses a prehensile tail. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America The muzzles of some deer are nearly flat, and destitute of hair; in others, they are covered with hair, and the upper lip is prehensile. Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals Not all the monkeys of America possess this prehensile power of tail. Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys Its body was scarcely a foot in length; but its tail, which was prehensile, was fifteen inches long. The Young Llanero A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela And after a moment’s hesitation he stretched out his hand and began to stroke the great, prehensile organ that was now passed over his shoulders and down his sides. Trapped by Malays A Tale of Bayonet and Kris Their tails, though covered with hair, are prehensile. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America Thither the midshipmen followed, but Spider showed an inclination to defend his position, and sat grinning at them from the end of the yard, round which his prehensile tail was firmly curled. The Three Lieutenants There is one particular in which they differ most remarkably from their congeners of the Old World; that is, in having prehensile tails. Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys This was of considerable length, and by the way it curled round a stick we placed near it we found that it was prehensile. In the Eastern Seas “A rhinoceros is an herbivorous beast, and has a prehensile upper lip.” Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers They are mostly furnished with long, prehensile tails. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America The cayman plunged sullenly into the sedgy water; and the “Sajou” monkey, suspended by his prehensile tail from some overhanging bough, oscillated to and fro, and filled the air with his hideous, half-human cries. The Rifle Rangers It has also a peculiar prehensile power in its lips; and this, with its general shaggy mien, led to the belief of its being a species of sloth—hence its common name. Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys Cuscus held on by his long prehensile tail; but Macco pulled and pulled, and down the animal came with a flop to the ground. In the Eastern Seas The tall giraffe, with his prehensile lip, raised nearly twenty-feet in the air, can browse upon these trees without difficulty. The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family They are bulky fellows, and though able, by means of their prehensile tails, to get along at a good rate among the boughs, seldom trouble themselves to move rapidly. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America It did not enter the cup of the flower, but remained at the mouth—poised upon its whirring wings—while with its long prehensile tongue it drew out the honey. The Boy Hunters They have the further power of being able to suspend themselves from the branches with their tails, which, like those of the opossums, are highly prehensile. Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys Tall trees stood on the bank like triumphal arches, and from their boughs hung lianas serving as rope ladders and swings for sportive monkeys with prehensile tails. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Their hands and feet are split so that they grip the branches firmly, and the prehensile tail rivals a monkey's. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told It possesses a prehensile tail, like that of the ateles and other American monkeys, with which it can swing itself from branch to branch. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America All at once the clew-like body flew out, displaying a sharp-snouted four-footed animal, whose long serpent-like tail, at the same instant, sweeping around caught one of the hares in its prehensile embrace! The Boy Hunters It is also a tree-climber, possesses a naked prehensile tail, and makes its nest in a hole in the trunk, or in one of the larger branches. Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys And he had gone up in life much the way a monkey climbs, by shifts and scrambles and prehensile hoists with frequent falls. Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward She would untie it and trust entirely to her clinging hands and prehensile moccasined feet. Where the Sun Swings North Like the squirrel, it sits upon its hind-limbs when eating, supporting itself with its prehensile tail. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America The foot, judging from the condition of the great toe in the fœtus, was then prehensile, and our progenitors, no doubt, were arboreal in their habits, frequenting some warm forest-clad land. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity DESCRIPTION.—Fur olive brown, mottled with irregular whitish spots and blotches; the pile is short, but exquisitely soft; head and brain very small; tail long and prehensile. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon They are slender-legged, sluggish, and thumbless, with a most perfectly prehensile tail, terminating in a naked palm, which answers for a fifth hand. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America He was regarded as a "sub-species of mankind, dark of skin, wooly of hair, long of head, with dilated nostrils, thick lips, thicker cranium, flat foot, prehensile great toe and larkheel." Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights The short prehensile trunk of the tapir is well made and the hoofs are likewise shown. Animal Figures in the Maya Codices He reached for the questing, almost prehensile tip of the one that was caught in the neck hole. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Grinding teeth semi-rooted; skull rather more elongate; infra-orbital foramen of great size; clavicles imperfect, attached to the sternum, and not to the scapula; upper lip furrowed; tail not prehensile; soles of feet smooth. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Wallace, in a residence of four years, saw twenty-one species—seven with prehensile and fourteen with non-prehensile tails. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America Wounded and winded, with knives, skulls, feet, teeth and nails, prehensile toe and larkheel, Henry Johnson and Needham Roberts defeated ten times their number of Germans and held the field of honor. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Yes, they were miracles of sculpture, miracles of colour and delicacy, the slender tips well-nigh prehensile in their cunning power. Visionaries She curled the prehensile tips of her wings up the soles of his feet, making him go, Yeek! and jump in the bed. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town The Missing Link, standing grimly outlined in the darkness, raised the bottle in his two prehensile paws, and drank health to Schmitz. The Missing Link The clavicles, or "collar bones," are well developed in correlation with the prehensile nature of the fore limbs; a bony ring surrounds the orbit or eye socket. The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Behold a sub-species of mankind, wooly of hair, long of head, with dilated nostrils, thick lips, thicker cranium, flat foot, prehensile great toe and larkheel. Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights Throughout the animal kingdom generally, indeed, this correspondence, or rather this chain of causation, makes itself everywhere felt; no high intelligence without a highly developed prehensile and grasping organ. Science in Arcady They grasped things with the strong prehensile grasp of the infant, rather than with the clutch of the miser. Humanly Speaking As undisturb'd as the prehensile cell Of moth or maggot, or the spider's tissue, For never foot upon that threshold fell, To enter or to issue. The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood These animals usually possess a long tail which they can use as a prehensile organ, curling it about the branch of a tree with hand-like ease and grasp. The Doctrine of Evolution Its Basis and Its Scope Its length is about eighteen inches, exclusive of the tail, which is twelve inches long, and prehensile. The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789) If the toes play him false, he can 'recover his tip,' as circus-folk put it, with his prehensile tail. Science in Arcady The other, dwarfed and prehensile, might in its uncanny silhouette have been an imp of darkness from the nether regions. Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West At every lick of Rufus's huge prehensile tongue a kitten was lifted bodily into the air, only, however, to descend washed and unharmed to the ground. Punch, Or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 16, 1892 There are indications that the snout was prolonged, and more or less flexible; and the tongue was probably prehensile. The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science I do know them, I say, through to their little prehensile souls! V. V.'s Eyes Why, nothing but the possession of a prehensile hand and tail. Science in Arcady So I used to fashion 'gangways' of my own; I used to descend the cliff at whatsoever point it pleased me, clinging to the lumps of sandy earth with the prehensile power of a spider-monkey. Aylwin If you choose to pay for it, you may have the moving fingers of a man, or the prehensile trunk of an elephant, perfectly executed. Rides on Railways Associated words: caudal, dock, scut, prehensile, caudate, bicaudal, rump, uropygium. tailless, a. acaudate, anurous. tailor, n. Putnam's Word Book His mind is not prehensile like the tail of the Apollo Bundar; everything eludes its grasp, so its pursuits are terminable. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series Moreover, the horse at least has to some slight extent a prehensile organ in his very mobile and sensitive lip, which he uses like an undeveloped or rudimentary proboscis to feel things all over with. Science in Arcady People who had never come to see her in spite of her prehensile telephone, dropped in to pay up some musty old call that had lain unreturned for years. Mrs. Budlong's Christmas Presents The prehensile part of the avicularium itself small, seated in a deep notch below the acuminate summit; lateral area large and well defined. Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 At night the sailors lower the side awnings, crawling along the railings with their naked prehensile feet. As Seen By Me With strange agility, almost apelike in its prehensile power, a human figure came clambering up over the outer works, clutching at stays, wires, struts. The Flying Legion They've got no prehensile organ that ever I heard of, and yet they're universally allowed to be the cleverest and most intelligent of all earthly quadrupeds.' Science in Arcady His long, slim hands suddenly prehensile and cutting a long, upward gesture, Leon Kantor rose to his feet, face whitening. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919 Little did she guess at the time that these prehensile toes were destined one day to serve an artist, in the execution of her work, with the same marvellous facility as hands. Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. In the afternoon, from the boat, Cherrie shot a large dark-gray monkey with a prehensile tail. Through the Brazilian Wilderness Curiously he looked at the stranger, a man of great strength, with long arms and powerful, prehensile hands that reminded one of an ape's. The Flying Legion The possession of an effective prehensile organ—a hand or its equivalent—seems to be the first great requisite for the evolution of a high order of intellect. Science in Arcady Women are prehensile things, which have to cling to something for nourishment and support. John Caldigate Again and again the owner enveloped the top of the candy with prehensile lips; deep cavities appeared in her profusely spangled cheeks. The Wrong Twin Another guest appeared to answer to the general designation of Capitalist or Philanthropist, and seemed from his prehensile grasp upon his knife and fork to typify the Money Power. Further Foolishness Without altering the position of her limbs, she suddenly stops in her rapid descent, by means of her prehensile tail, that fifth hand, so powerful, with which nature has endowed the monkeys of America. The Solitary of Juan Fernandez, or the Real Robinson Crusoe Sometimes, too, the whole fruit is provided with prehensile hooks, while sometimes it is rather the individual seeds themselves that are so accommodated. Science in Arcady Here is not only a Thing of Beauty, but a Joy for Ever, wrought by elfin fingers, fashioned of gossamer threads at once fine and prehensile. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 26, 1919 Around that prehensile appendage a dozen sharp-nosed, sleek-headed young had entwined their own tails, and were sitting on the mother's back. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers These animals have prehensile tails, the extremity of which, even after death, can support the whole weight of the body. The Voyage of the Beagle Her face was of the prognathic type, and this, with her extraordinary prehensile powers of feet and lips, gave her the title of "Darwin's missing link." Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine They have a long prehensile upper lip, short ears, short and stout legs, a short, thick tail, and short, close hair. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section T, U, V, and W They have long exserted limbs and long prehensile claws. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section S The tail is often prehensile, and the thumb is short and not opposable. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section M, N, and O It has a prehensile tail and lives in trees. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section I, J, K, and L She was too much the opportunist to let any consideration of old acquaintance interfere with working such a potential gold-mine as now seemed to lie open to her pretty but prehensile fingers. She Stands Accused They have an elongated and somewhat prehensile tail, only four toes on the hind feet, and a body covered with short spines mixed with bristles. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section T, U, V, and W This was because it was a prehensile foot, more like a hand than a foot. Before Adam Anger was not in him yet; no rousing of the blind, white-hot wrath that leaps to the attack with prehensile fingers, moved him. The Octopus : A story of California Her power, in the American air, seemed to have lost its prehensile attributes; the smooth wall of rock was insurmountable. The Europeans He rose to his feet, his long, prehensile fingers curled into fists. McTeague Its tail is stout and hairy at the base, tapering, and covered with minute scales, and is somewhat prehensile at the end. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section T, U, V, and W His long, slim hands suddenly prehensile and cutting a streak of upward gesture, Leon Kantor rose to his feet, face whitening. Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It Voices quivered with wrath, hands flung upward, the fingers hooked, prehensile, trembled with anger. The Octopus : A story of California It was observed that Mr. Lowes-Parlby never again quite got the prehensile grip upon his cross-examination that he had shown in his treatment of the earlier witnesses. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 And where is his monkey that first lost the prehensile power to climb trees? Life: Its True Genesis Closely allied to the last are the woolly monkeys, which have an equally well developed prehensile tail, but better proportioned limbs, and a thick woolly fur of a uniform gray or brownish color. Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 The tail is a grasping instrument, strongly prehensile, and aided by two hooklike claws, sheathed with horn, externally visible on each side, beneath, just anterior to the base of the tail. Forest and Frontiers Or, Adventures Among the Indians There are large black howling monkeys, and little black-faced ones with prehensile tails, by means of which they swing in mid-air or jump from tree to tree in sheer lightness of heart. Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America Up, up, slowly up slipped the chief's arms; Stern knew the savage meant to throttle him; and once those long, prehensile fingers reached his throat, good-by! Darkness and Dawn For the loss of hair and of the prehensile power to climb trees are both conceded by Mr. Darwin to be serious defects and drawbacks in the ape family. Life: Its True Genesis We now come to a group of monkeys whose prehensile tail is of a less perfect character, since it is covered with hair to the tip, and is of no use to pick up objects. Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 For example: the ribs become, in the serpent, organs of locomotion, and the snout is extended, in the elephant, into a prehensile instrument. Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation Near the Vuelta de Basilio, where we landed to collect plants, we saw on the top of a tree two beautiful little monkeys, black as jet, of the size of the sai, with prehensile tails. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 The twisted little apelike legs, disproportionately short, were curled up; the feet, prehensile and with a well-marked thumb on each, twitched a little now and then. Darkness and Dawn He had to go to work and make weapons to defend himself--to construct tools--make and set traps, live on his wits, and not on his prehensile power to climb trees. Life: Its True Genesis Prather concluded; but under his breath he added bitterly: "And you get both the store and Little Rivers!" in the prehensile instinct which gains one thing only to covet another. Over the Pass His big toes were unusually long and prehensile. Inca Land Explorations in the Highlands of Peru His fur is mouldy and mangy, and he is manifestly ashamed of his tail, prehensile no more—and of his paws, "very hands, as you may say," miserable matches to his miserable feet. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 325, August 2, 1828 Beside them, the brain and the face and the prehensile organs are mere parvenus. The Glands Regulating Personality For bear in mind that it was the loss of this prehensile power that resulted in the caudal atrophy of our monkey progenitors, who became men simply because they were tailless monkeys! Life: Its True Genesis But he recovered rapidly from his illness and his mental processes were as keen and prehensile as ever. Over the Pass There are still others that have their toes united and drawn under the skin, or enveloped in corneous hoofs, and are thereby enabled to exercise no prehensile power whatever. The Book of Household Management What gives the human hand its peculiar prehensile power? Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Harvey went, and, waiting till the coast was clear, attached himself to the handle with a prehensile grasp, and put his back into one strenuous tug. The Gold Bat A perfectly similar appendage, "a most delicate tube or ribbon," was found by Darwin in free-swimming pupae of Lepas australis on the last joints of the "prehensile antennae." Facts and Arguments for Darwin Our own guides in cutlassing are not at all inconvenienced by their loads; they walk perfectly upright, never stumble, never slip, never hesitate, and do not even seem to perspire: their bare feet are prehensile. Two Years in the French West Indies The graceful sloping shoulders harmonized with the slender and well-poised waist, and with a hand pliant and yet prehensile. Literary Lapses The tail of an opossum is a prehensile thing, but it is too far from his eyes - the elephant’s trunk is better, and it is probably to their trunks that the elephants owe their sagacity. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler Clumsy two-wheeled carts came bumping past, some with prehensile- footed negroes perched upon them, others driven by turban-crowned Hindoos. The Ne'er-Do-Well Strange—see how small it is—and broad, how prehensile the toes—almost like fingers. The War Terror In B flat minor, it sends out prehensile filaments that entwine and draw us into the centre of a wondrous melody, laden with rich odors, odors that almost intoxicate. Chopin : the Man and His Music She looked at him, at his thin, brown, nervous hands, that were prehensile, and somehow like talons, like 'griffes,' inhuman. Women in Love It was his business to know other people's business, and he knew that Lord Dreever was impecunious, and depended for supplies entirely on a prehensile uncle. The Intrusion of Jimmy His legs and feet were bare, blue, scratched, and very dirty, and this toes had the prehensile look common to monkeys and small boys who summer and winter go bootless. Huntingtower The tail of an opossum is a prehensile thing, but it is too far from his eyes; the elephant's trunk is better, and it is probably to their trunks that the elephants owe their sagacity. Canterbury Pieces Like one class of forest animals, they have nothing but a prehensile tail; climb they must, or crawl. Essays — Second Series And the cats on the route saw reason to give thanks that prehensile claws had been given them. The Four Million The tail is prehensile; and is probably made use of as an additional support while feeding. The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 Sure, it's possible that prehensile tails could be produced by mutation, but so far as we know it hasn't happened in human history. The Lani People "Yes * * * I insulted you * * * I insulted you because what I said was correct * * my prehensile attributes * * yes but I have never——" He was interrupted by a chorus from the other students. Active Service In the males of the Diplopoda, the legs belonging either to one of the anterior or of the posterior segments of the body are modified into prehensile hooks which serve to secure the female. The Descent of Man We shall, also, presently see that the tail is a highly useful prehensile organ to some of the species; and its use would be much influence by its length. The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition The Duke threw a prehensile hand on the casket, and, coldly glaring at The MacQuern, pointed with his other hand towards the College gate. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story The neck is shorter and thicker, and, as the animal increases in height, we can understand that the long snout—possibly prehensile at its lower end—is necessary for the animal to reach the ground. The Story of Evolution With some savages, however, the foot has not altogether lost its prehensile power, as shewn by their manner of climbing trees, and of using them in other ways. The Descent of Man Part of right anterior antenna of male, forming a prehensile organ. b. The Descent of Man If the harvest mouse had been more strictly arboreal, it would perhaps have had its tail rendered structurally prehensile, as is the case with some members of the same order. The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition The foot was then prehensile, judging from the condition of the great toe in the foetus; and our progenitors, no doubt, were arboreal in their habits, and frequented some warm, forest-clad land. The Descent of Man Moths, absence of mouth in some males; apterous female; male, prehensile use of the tarsi by; male, attracted by females; sound produced by; coloration of; sexual differences of colour in. The Descent of Man Foot, prehensile power of the, retained in some savages; prehensile, in the early progenitors of man. The Descent of Man They are only temporarily developed during the breeding-season; and Dr. Gunther suspects that they are brought into action as prehensile organs by the doubling inwards and downwards of the two sides of the body. The Descent of Man The extremity of the tail in some American monkeys has been converted into a wonderfully perfect prehensile organ, and serves as a fifth hand. The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition Buchner, L., on the origin of man; on the use of the human foot as a prehensile organ; on the mode of progression of the apes; on want of self-consciousness, etc., in savages. The Descent of Man The complemental males of certain Cirripedes live like epiphytic plants either on the female or the hermaphrodite form, and are destitute of a mouth and of prehensile limbs. The Descent of Man It is, however, possible that the long tail of this monkey may be of more service to it as a balancing organ in making its prodigious leaps, than as a prehensile organ. The Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, 6th Edition |
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