manipulatory

Having an extra manipulatory appendage would be handy, and I think a nice long tail would be rather stylish, too.

Remaking Humanity Blank Slate Special Report: Remaking Humanity PZ Myers 2006

He acknowledged that his fingers had lost their cunning, but the fates ordained that his ideas should blossom as his manipulatory skill withered Gradually he became feeble in mind and body, and was wont to spend his time crouched in a rough shelter dreaming prodigious dreams.

Tropic Days 2003

So you proceeded to act with deceit, with cunning, with an aim so manipulatory and exploitative —!

The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

The result of this is that a world-class capability now exists in Canada for remote manipulatory systems.

Partners in Freedom 1980

But not using all its feet to maintain its grip, for it was using many of them in a manipulatory way, working on the circuitry or the lights or whatever the column held.

Project Pope Simak, Clifford D., 1904-1988- 1981

Besides, what does a herbivore with no manipulatory appendages, and no natural defenses except sentient herders to kill off natural enemies, want with intelligence?

World of Ptavvs Niven, Larry 1966

So he squatted there in his ship, a centipede-like thing about five feet in length and a little less than eighteen inches in diameter, with eight articulated limbs spaced in pairs along his body, each limb ending in a five-fingered manipulatory organ that could be used equally well as hand or foot.

Anything You Can Do ... Randall Garrett 1957

It must have manipulatory organs, such as this being very obviously did have -- organs very much like his own.

Anything You Can Do ... Randall Garrett 1957

Many methods have been proposed for this, all of them of more or less value; those yielding the best results, however, requiring a considerable length of time for their execution, and involving so large an amount of manipulatory skill as to render them fairly impracticable to a chemist at all pressed for time, and receiving but a mere trifle for the results.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various

He acknowledged that his fingers had lost their cunning, but the fates ordained that his ideas should blossom as his manipulatory skill withered

Tropic Days 1887