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    prehensile - Dictionary definition and meaning for word prehensile

    Definition
    (adj) adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object
    Example Sentence
    • a monkey's prehensile tail
    Definition
    (adj) having a keen intellect
    Example Sentence
    • poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men
    Definition
    (adj) immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
    Example Sentence
    • 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
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for prehensile

PRE(before)+HENS+ILE before the hens can escape we have to grasp & hold them.

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From comprehensible to get hold of idea or concept.Prehensile is get hold or grasp things.

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PreHensile..Concentrate on Hensile.. Sounds like Tensile..Now Tensile means Capable of Being stretched, similarly lets say hensile means capable of being held or grasped..!

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Root word prehend/ /prehens/ /preg/ = to grasp; to take; to seize e.g. comprehensible

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PREHENSILE sounds like PENCIL. Hands are PREHENSILE because they can grab PENcILs.

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PREHENSILE=UTENSIL. UTENSILs are used to GRAB food.

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pre+hens+ile(read ill). Before hens get ill we have to grasp and hold them to cure.

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pre(before) + H (harvest) + en (ensure) + sle (selling) means more greedy to get hold of money.

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prehensile

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prehend-means to arrest...so prehensile means to grasp or similar to arrest

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