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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (3)

1. adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object;
- Example: "a monkey's prehensile tail"

2. having a keen intellect;
- Example: "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch

3. immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth;
- Example: "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"
- Example: "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"
- Example: "a grasping old miser"
- Example: "grasping commercialism"
- Example: "greedy for money and power"
- Example: "grew richer and greedier"
- Example: "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"
[syn: avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Prehensile \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.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

prehensile
    adj 1: adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an
           object; "a monkey's prehensile tail" [ant:
           nonprehensile]
    2: having a keen intellect; "poets--those gifted strangely
       prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch
    3: 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" [syn: avaricious, covetous,
       grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile]