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Prehensile

Prehensile Meaning & Definition
Prehensile Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Prehensile?

[adj] immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "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"
[adj] adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object; "a monkey's prehensile tail"
[adj] having a keen intellect; "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch

Synonyms | Synonyms for Prehensile: acquisitive | avaricious | covetous | grabby | grasping | greedy | intelligent

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Prehensile In Webster's Dictionary

\Pre*hen"sile\, a. [L. prehensus, p. p. of prehendere to lay hold of, seize; pre- (equiv. to prae before) + hendere (in comp.), akin to E. get: cf. F. pr['e]hensile. See {Get}, and cf. {Prison}, {Prize}, n.] Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey.

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