PREHENSILE — ТЛУМАЧЕННЯ
prehensile
Immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth.
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- 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 greed.
Adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object.
Приклади
- A monkey's prehensile tail.
Having a keen intellect.
Приклади
- Poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch.
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