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Prehensile

adjective
1.
Adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object.
2.
Having a keen intellect.
3.
Immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth.  Synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy.  "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"





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"Prehensile" Quotes from Famous Books



... developed. The tail is also believed to have some use as a balancing organ, which assists an animal to turn easily and rapidly, much as our arms are used when running; while in whole groups it is a prehensile organ, and has become modified in accordance with the habits and needs of each species. In the case of mice it is thus used by the young. Darwin informs us that the late Professor Henslow kept some harvest-mice in ...
— Darwinism (1889) • Alfred Russel Wallace


Words linked to "Prehensile" :   avaricious, grasping, greedy, covetous, intelligent, grabby, nonprehensile, acquisitive


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