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PREHENSILE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
Example:
prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees
Synonyms:
avaricious; covetous; grabby; grasping; greedy; prehensile
Classified under:
Similar:
acquisitive (eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object
Example:
a monkey's prehensile tail
Classified under:
Antonym:
nonprehensile (not prehensile)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Having a keen intellect
Example:
poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
intelligent (having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree)
