prehension
Example Sentences
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But public ap prehension about the possible dangers of chemical insect killers is now shielding the hungry worms from DDT and other long-lasting poisons.
From Time Magazine Archive
But last week Philadelphia's Dr. William Likoff somberly warned the AHA that the "mild coronary" may have more cause for ap prehension than for gratitude.
From Time Magazine Archive
It also serves, as we have before seen, for prehension and suction, and as a tactile organ.
From The formation of vegetable mould through the action of worms, with observations on their habits by Charles Darwin
Unless indeed254 we confine the term “primary” to the reproductive glands, it is scarcely possible to decide, as far as the organs of prehension are concerned, which ought to be called primary and which secondary.
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Charles Darwin
It is wonderful, and passing wonder, how teachable and quick of perception and prehension is Nature in the studio of Art.
From A Walk from London to John O'Groat's by Elihu Burritt
