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UK
/pɹɪhˈɛnsaɪl/
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ADJECTIVE
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adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object
a monkey's prehensile tail -
immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
they are avaricious and will do anything for money
grasping commercialism
a grasping old miser
greedy for money and power
casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields
grew richer and greedier
prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees -
having a keen intellect
poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men
How To Use prehensile In A Sentence
- But again, it's called a bearcat with a prehensile tail.
- His tiny arms windmill in the air and he starts to fall, but I catch him with my prehensile tail, barely hard enough to cut into his clothes.
- The prehensile tail is muscular at the base, and it is hitched around a branch as an anchor, particularly when descending.
- The plate in the field guide shows a strange, golden-brown animal with a prehensile tail, hook-like claws and a funny snub nose.
- I took his prehensile toes between my thumb and forefinger.
- a monkey's prehensile tail
- A monkey has a prehensile tail.
- Like a monstrous octopus, poverty spreads its nagging, prehensile tentacles into hamlets and villages all over our world.
- poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men
- Their prehensile tails enable them to grasp branches, especially as they climb downward, and to balance on tree branches.
