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 prehensile [pri'hensail]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 能抓的, 善于领会的, 贪得无厌的

[医] 抓握的, 捕捉的




    prehensile
    [ adj ]
    1. adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object

    2. <adj.all>
      a monkey's prehensile tail
    3. having a keen intellect

    4. <adj.all>
      poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men
    5. immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth

    6. <adj.all>
      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


    Prehensile \Pre*hen"sile\, a. [L. prehensus, p. p. of prehendere
    to lay hold of, seize; pre- (equiv. to prae before) + hendere
    (in comp.), akin to E. get: cf. F. pr['e]hensile. See {Get},
    and cf. {Prison}, {Prize}, n.]
    Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the
    prehensile tail of a monkey.

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