depinisyon kahulugan
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doc Definition of prehensile
    English to English
    adjective
  • adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object
  • A monkey's prehensile tail.
    source: WordNet 3.0
  • Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey.
  • source: Webster 1913
    adjective satellite
  • having a keen intellect
  • Poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men.
    source: WordNet 3.0
  • 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.
    source: WordNet 3.0
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