prehensile

adj 1: adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an

object; "a monkey's prehensile tail" [ant: {nonprehensile}]

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" [syn: {avaricious},

{covetous}, {grabby}, {grasping}, {greedy}]