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prehensile a. 适于抓住的 适於抓住的 prehensile adj 1: adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object; " a monkey' s prehensile tail" [ ant: { nonprehensile}] 2: having a keen intellect; " poets-- those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A. T. Quiller- Couch 3: 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" [ synonym: { avaricious}, { covetous}, { grabby}, { grasping}, { greedy}, { prehensile}] Prehensile \ Pre* hen" sile\, a. [ L. prehensus, p. p. of prehendere to lay hold of, seize; pre- ( equiv. to prae before) hendere ( in comp.), akin to E. get: cf. F. pr[' e] hensile. See { Get}, and cf. { Prison}, { Prize}, n.] Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey. [ 1913 Webster] 40 Moby Thesaurus words for " 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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