Found 2 items, similar to Prehensile.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: prehensile
prehensile
adj 1: adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an
object;
“a monkey's prehensile tail” [ant:
nonprehensile]
2: having a keen intellect;
“poets--those gifted strangely
prehensile men”- A.T.Quiller-Couch
3: 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” [syn:
avaricious,
covetous,
grabby,
grasping,
greedy]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Prehensile
Prehensile
\Pre*hen"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['e]hensile. See
Get,
and cf.
Prison,
Prize, n.]
Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the
prehensile tail of a monkey.
[1913 Webster]