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Prehensile
see synonyms of prehensileAdjective
1. prehensile
adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object
Example Sentences:'a monkey's prehensile tail'
2. prehensile
having a keen intellect
Example Sentences:'poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men'
3. avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile
immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
Example Sentences:'they are avaricious and will do anything for money''casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields''a grasping old miser''grasping commercialism''greedy for money and power''grew richer and greedier''prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees'
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
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