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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective prehensile has 3 senses

• prehensile(a = adj.all) Array - adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object; "a monkey's prehensile tail"
Antonym: nonprehensile

• prehensile(s = adj.all) Array - having a keen intellect; "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"
• prehensile(s = adj.all) avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy - 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"

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THESAURUS

prehensile

acquisitive, all-knowing, apperceptive, appercipient, apprehending, apprehensive, aware, clawed, cognizant, comprehending, conscious, dentate, desirous, digital, digitate, digitated, fanged, fingered, grabby, grasping, greedy, insightful, intelligent, itchy, jawed, knowing, knowledgeable, mindful, omniscient, perceptive, percipient, perspicacious, raptorial, sagacious, sensible, shrewd, taloned, toothed, understanding, wise

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prehensile

Taking

N taking, reception, deglutition, appropriation, prehension, prensation, capture, caption, apprehension, deprehension, abreption, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation, subtraction, withdrawal, abstraction, ademption, adrolepsy, dispossession, deprivation, deprivement, bereavement, divestment, disherison, distraint, distress, sequestration, confiscation, eviction, rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism, theft, resumption, reprise, reprisal, recovery, clutch, swoop, wrench, grip, haul, take, catch, scramble, taker, captor, subduction, taking, privative, prehensile, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, lupine, rapacious, raptorial, ravenous, parasitic, bereft, at one fell swoop, give an inch and take an ell.

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