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prehensile

美[prɪ'hensl] 英[prɪ'hensaɪl]

adj. (动物的尾足等)适于抓握的；有理解力的；贪婪的

名词：prehensility

近义词：grasping，greedy，grabby，avaricious，covetous，

Adjective

adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object;
"a monkey's prehensile tail"
having a keen intellect;
"poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"
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"

Poets are those strangely prehensile men. 诗人是那些具有深刻洞察力的人们。
This type of monkey has a prehensile tail. 这种猴子有可以盘住树枝的尾巴。
They have prehensile lips for feeding on leaves and saplings. 它们都具有能卷握东西的嘴唇,可用于取食树叶和树苗。
Buy a bridle, north city NaShi prehensile bullwhip buy. 南市买辔头，北市买长鞭。
A civet(Arctictis binturong) of southeast Asia with a long, prehensile tail. 熊狸，香猫产于东南亚的香猫（北极熊狸），有易于缠绕的长尾巴
A proboscis,especially the long prehensile proboscis of an elephant. 长嘴象鼻或长虫的喙，尤指大象的可缠卷的长鼻

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