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Wiktionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: prehensile (Adjective). Able to take hold of and clasp objects; adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object. Some monkeys have prehensile tails which they use to pick things up.
Prehensile. Once used to describe an object that grasps like a tail, this is now used much like the word Smuf (as a noun, verb, adjective and so on). It is also commonly used as a substitute word in colloquial phrases. A bird in the hand is worth two in the prehensile.