Definition of prehensile Prehensile
pre•hen•sile
We found 6 definitions of prehensile from 4 different sources.
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What does prehensile mean?
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| 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 | ||
| 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" | ||
| avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy | ||
| acquisitive eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas; "an acquisitive mind"; "an acquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied" | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- prehensile (n.)
Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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prē-hen′sil, adj. seizing: adapted for seizing or holding—also Prehen′sory.—adj. Prehen′sible, that may be seized.—ns. Prehen′sion, act of seizing or taking hold; Prehen′sor, one who takes hold. [L. pre-hendĕre, -hensum, to seize.]
