Prehensile

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  • adjective. Able to seize, grasp, or hold, especially by wrapping around an object.
  • adjective. Having a keen intellect or powerful memory.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Seizing or grasping; taking and holding; adapted for prehension; especially, fitted for grasping or holding by folding, wrapping, or curving around the object prehended: as, the prehensile tail of a monkey or an opossum. Also prehensory. See cut above, and cuts at Cebinæ, marmose, musk-cavy, opossum, and spider-monkey.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Able to take hold of and clasp objects; adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object
  • adjective. having a keen intellect
  • adjective. immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
    • Equivalent
    acquisitive  intelligent  
    Form
    prehensility  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Lions  beaklike  calloused  chitinous  clawlike  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    acquisitive  all-knowing  apperceptive  appercipient  apprehending  
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