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nonprehensile

nonprehensile \nonprehensile\ adj. not prehensile; as, cats have a nonprehensile tail. Opposite of prehensile.

Wiktionary
nonprehensile

a. Not prehensile.

WordNet
nonprehensile

adj. not prehensile [ant: prehensile]

Usage examples of "nonprehensile".

In the year 60,000, man had evolved to his environ: honeycombed by the billions, with each a cubicle-hole to call his own, ergonomically hunchbacked into cushioned chairs with drink-holders and power-steering for all, marsupial ass-pouch wallet-holders and eight-fingered nonprehensile hands fluttering over QWERTY pads while cranially inflated heads soaked up sensory input from nine different modalities with an optic-response curve flatlined across the RGB spectrum and refreshed at 60Hz, 16-bit audio, and a peak throughput of 45MBps (full JPEG, millisecond latencies) when all of a sudden, What do you know?