prehensile

Adjective
  1. Adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object (synset 300129954)
    "a monkey's prehensile tail"
  2. Having a keen intellect (synset 301339037)
    "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"
    similar to: intelligent - having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree
  3. Immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth (synset 300030046)
    "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"
    similar to: acquisitive - eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas
    same as: avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy

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