prehensile

prehensile /pri'hensail/
  • tính từ
    • (động vật học) có thể cầm nắm (chân, đuôi)

Xem thêm: avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy



prehensile

Từ điển WordNet

    adj.

  • adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object

    a monkey's prehensile tail

  • having a keen intellect; "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch
  • immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy

    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