Synonyms for prehensile
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : pri-hen-sil, -sahyl |
| Phonetic Transcription : prɪˈhɛn sɪl, -saɪl |
Top 10 synonyms for prehensile Other synonyms for the word prehensile
- avid
- carnivorous
- close
- close-fisted
- covetous
- craving
- demanding
- desiring
- desirous
- devouring
- eager
- edacious
- ensurient
- enthusiastic
- envious
- esurient
- extortionate
- gluttonous
- gobbling
- gormandizing
- grabbing
- grabby
- grasping
- greedy
- green-eyed
- grudging
- gulping
- guzzling
- hogging
- hoggish
- hot
- hungry
- impatient
- insatiable
- insatiate
- intemperate
- itchy
- jealous
- keen
- longing
- lustful
- mercenary
- miserly
- niggardly
- omnivorous
- parsimonious
- passionate
- pennypinching
- penurious
- piggish
- predatory
- prehensile
- ravening
- ravenous
- ready
- selfish
- stimulated
- stingy
- swinish
- tight
- tight-fisted
- tightfisted
- turned on
- usurious
- venal
- voracious
- willing
- wishing
- yearning
Définition of prehensile
Origin :- 1771, from French préhensile "adapted for grasping" (Buffon), from Latin prehensus, past participle of prehendere "to grasp, to seize," from prae- "before" (see pre-) + -hendere, related to hedera "ivy," via notion of "clinging," and cognate with Greek khandanein "to take in, hold" (see get (v.)).
- As in acquisitive : adj eager to obtain knowledge or things
- As in piggish : adj greedy
- As in covetous : adj greedy; very desirous
- As in desirous : adj aspiring, hopeful
- As in grasping : adj greedy
- As in greedy : adj desiring excessively
- And where is his monkey that first lost the prehensile power to climb trees?
- Extract from : « Life: Its True Genesis » by R. W. Wright
- Not all the monkeys of America possess this prehensile power of tail.
- Extract from : « Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found » by Mayne Reid
- What is wanted is the comprehensive hand, and not the prehensile tail.
- Extract from : « The History of Dartmouth College » by Baxter Perry Smith
- The tip of its tail, strange to say, is prehensile, just like that of a spider-monkey.
- Extract from : « The Animal World, A Book of Natural History » by Theodore Wood
- They form, in some sort, the prehensile organs which seize the aliment.
- Extract from : « The Ocean World: » by Louis Figuier
- The tail is very long and prehensile, like that of the sapajous.
- Extract from : « Buffon's Natural History. Volume IX (of 10) » by Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
- The first of the sub-families includes the monkeys with prehensile tails.
- Extract from : « Natural History in Anecdote » by Various
- The prehensile part of the tail is naked and of extreme sensibility.
- Extract from : « Natural History in Anecdote » by Various
- The Parson drew up his "prehensile muscles," as he called them.
- Extract from : « A Cadet's Honor » by Upton Sinclair
- This is particularly true of the prehensile power of the foot.
- Extract from : « Degeneracy » by Eugene S. Talbot
Antonyms for prehensile
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