What is the meaning of prehensile?

adjective

  • Adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object.
    • usage: "a monkey's prehensile tail"
  • Having a keen intellect. "poets-those gifted strangely prehensile men- A. T. Quiller-Couch
  • Immoderately desirous of acquiring e. G. Wealth.
    • usage: "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"
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