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prehensile

英 [prɪ'hensaɪl] 美[prɪ'hɛnsl]
  • adj. 适于抓握的;善于领会的

英英释意


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"- A.T.Quiller-Couch
3. 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 greedier"
"prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"