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English Dictionary: prehensile	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for prehensile
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
prehensile adj adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object; "a monkey's prehensile tail" Antonym(s): nonprehensile having a keen intellect; "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch 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" Synonym(s): avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Prehensile \Prehen"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[82]hensile. See {Get}, and cf. {Prison}, {Prize}, n.] Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile* tail of a monkey.