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Prehensile

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Adjective

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.


Prehensile

see synonyms of prehensile
adjective
adapted for grasping, esp by wrapping around a support
a prehensile tail
. Also: prehensive, prehensory

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Prehensile

see synonyms of prehensile
adjective
adapted for seizing or grasping, esp. by wrapping or folding around something, as the tail of certain monkeys

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.


Prehensile

see synonyms of prehensile
adj.
1. Able to seize, grasp, or hold, especially by wrapping around an object: a monkey's prehensile tail.
2. Having a keen intellect or powerful memory: a prehensile mind.

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