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prehensile
Definition: adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object; "a monkey's prehensile tail"
prehensile
Definition: having a keen intellect; "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch
avaricious
covetous
grabby
grasping
greedy
prehensile
Definition: 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"
Definition: Able to take hold of and clasp objects; adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object.