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Definitions of prehensile
  1. adjective
    immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
    "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"
  2. adjective
    having a keen intellect
    "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"

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  3. adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object
    "a monkey's prehensile tail"
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Definition that contains prehensile
  • hand the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
  • paw the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
  • saki small arboreal monkey of tropical South America with long hair and bushy nonprehensile tail
  • possum nocturnal arboreal marsupial having a naked prehensile tail found from southern North America to northern South America
  • possum small furry Australian arboreal marsupials having long usually prehensile tails
  • mitt the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
  • titi small South American monkeys with long beautiful fur and long nonprehensile tail
  • manus the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
  • bearcat arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair
  • tentacle any of various elongated tactile or prehensile flexible organs that occur on the head or near the mouth in many animals; used for feeling or grasping or locomotion
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