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Definição e significado de prehensile
Definição
prehensile (adj.)
1.immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth"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 g..."
2.adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object"a monkey's prehensile tail"
3.having a keen intellect"poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men" - A.T.Quiller-Couch
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Merriam Webster
PrehensilePre*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. préhensile. 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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prehensile (adj.)
↘ acquisitively, avariciously, avidly, covetously, desirously, eagerly, graspingly, greedily, hungrily, keenly, rapaciously, thirstily ↗ cling to, clutch, embrace, enfold in one's arms, hold close, hold tight, put one's arms around, take, take hold of, take in one's arms ≠ nonprehensile
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⇨ Chapman's Prehensile-tailed Hutia • Molaccan Prehensile-tailed Rat • Prehensile feet • Prehensile tail • Prehensile-tailed • Prehensile-tailed Hutia • Prehensile-tailed Porcupine • Prehensile-tailed Rat • Prehensile-tailed porcupine
Dicionario analógico
prehensile (adj.)
prehensile (adj.)
nonprehensile[Ant.]
prehensile (adj.)
clever, intelligent, shrewd[Similaire]
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