prehensile
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(a) adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object
- a monkey's prehensile tail
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(s) having a keen intellect
- "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch
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(s) 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