adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object
<adj.all> a monkey's prehensile tail
having a keen intellect
<adj.all> poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men
immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
<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.