prehensile

Adj.	1.	prehensile - adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object; "a monkey's prehensile tail" nonprehensile - not prehensile
	2.	prehensile - having a keen intellect; "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch intelligent - having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree; "is there intelligent life in the universe?"; "an intelligent question"
	3.	prehensile - 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" avaricious, grabby, grasping, greedy, covetous acquisitive - eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas; "an acquisitive mind"; "an aquisitive society in which the craving for material things seems never satisfied"

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