Prehensile synonyms

prē-hĕn'səl, -sīl'

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grabby
Tending to grab especially rudely or needily
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covetous
Feeling, expressing, or characterized by a strong or immoderate desire for the possessions of another:
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chelicera (related)
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avaricious
Immoderately desirous of wealth or gain; greedy.
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grasping
Exceedingly eager for material gain; avaricious.
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mouthpart (related)
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greedy
The definition of greedy is someone who wants more of something than he is entitled to or the behavior of wanting more than you are entitled to.
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nonprehensile (antonym)
Not prehensile.
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palp (related)
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Prehensile Sentence Examples

  • Tail longer than the body and head, scantily clothed with short hairs, prehensile.

  • It is arboreal, bright green above; the end of the prehensile tail is usually bright red.

  • - These singular crustaceans have long soft flexible bodies, the eyes stalked and movable, the first antennae small and filiform, the second lamellar in the female, in the male prehensile; this last character gives rise to some very fanciful developments.

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