prehensile   (Sound)

The adj prehensile has 3 senses

• prehensile -- (adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object; "a monkey's prehensile tail")


• prehensile -- (having a keen intellect; "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch)


• avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile -- (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")