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1. Adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object
   "a monkey's prehensile tail"
    
2. Having a keen intellect
   "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"
    
3. Immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
   "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"
   - avaricious, covetous, grabby [N. Amer], grasping, greedy

See also: acquisitive, intelligent

Antonym: nonprehensile

Encyclopedia: Prehensile