Prehensile Definition & Meaning
prehensile
- adjective
- adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object; "a monkey's prehensile tail"
- having a keen intellect; "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch
- 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"
"Prehensile" in song lyrics
See how prehensile is used in real songs:
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"And even man wasn't prehensile"
Ras Kass (w/ Saafir, Ahmad)
Words that rhyme with prehensile
Usage tips for "prehensile"
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