Adjective prehensile has 3 senses
  1. prehensile - adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object; "a monkey's prehensile tail"
    Antonym:
    nonprehensile
  2. prehensile - having a keen intellect; "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch
    Antonyms:
    unintelligent, stupid (indirect, via intelligent)
  3. avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile - 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"
    Antonym: unacquisitive (indirect, via acquisitive)
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