Prehensile

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Adapted for seizing, grasping, or holding, especially by wrapping around an object: a monkey's prehensile tail.
  • adj. Having keen intellect; insightful.
  • adj. Greedy; grasping.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Able to take hold of and clasp objects; adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Seizing or grasping; taking and holding; adapted for prehension; especially, fitted for grasping or holding by folding, wrapping, or curving around the object prehended: as, the prehensile tail of a monkey or an opossum. Also prehensory. See cut above, and cuts at Cebinæ, marmose, musk-cavy, opossum, and spider-monkey.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object
  • adj. having a keen intellect
  • adj. immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
    • Equivalent
    intelligent    acquisitive   
    Form
    prehensility   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    seizing    grasping    prehensive    prehensory   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    whiplike    snakelike    long-nailed    handlike    vestigial   
     
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