PREHENSILE

avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, 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”

prehensile

(adjective) adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object; “a monkey’s prehensile tail”

prehensile

(adjective) having a keen intellect; “poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men”- A.T.Quiller-Couch

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Adjective

prehensile (not comparable)

(zoology) Able to take hold of and clasp objects; adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object.

Source: Wiktionary

Pre*hen"sile, a. Etym: [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. préhensile. See Get, and cf. Prison, Prize, n.]

Definition: Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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