Example sentences:  

Ramayana: Hanuman was prehensile, and so was his tail — and the combination was too much for the demons to deal with. 

Mahabharata: Bhima looked scornfully at the old monkey’s tail that seemed to have long lost the power to be prehensile and lay almost lifelessly on the forest trail . 

Bhagavad-gita: For prehensile readers of the Gita, commentators reveal amazing nuances of each word of the Gita’s four nutshell verses.