prehensile

Words with a similar base: prehensile

'prehensile'

[prehensile.a.01] as in: adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object

Examples:
a monkey's prehensile tail

'prehensile'

[prehensile.s.01] as in: having a keen intellect; - A.T.Quiller-Couch

Examples:
poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men

'prehensile'

[avaricious.s.01] as in: immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g.

wealth

Examples:
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

Origins

					prehensile (English)
└── préhensile (French)

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