Definition of Prehensile

Adjective

  • 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"
  • having a keen intellect
    "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch
  • adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object
    "a monkey's prehensile tail"
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Unscramble prehensile

452 unscramble word found using the letters prehensile.
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