• adjective:   having a keen intellect

  Example: "Poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men- A.T.Quiller-Couch"

• adjective:   adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object

  Example: "A monkey's prehensile tail"

• adjective:   immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth

  Example: "Prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"

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