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单词 prehensile
释义
Prehensile
adjadj.alladapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object
Examples:
  • a monkey's prehensile tail
Antonyms:nonprehensile
Inherited Hypernyms:prehensile
adj satadj.allhaving a keen intellect
Examples:
  • poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men - A.T.Quiller-Couch
Antonyms:unintelligent
Inherited Hypernyms:prehensile
Similar to:intelligent
adj satadj.allimmoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
Synset:avaricious covetous grabby grasping greedy
Examples:
  • 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
Antonyms:unacquisitive
Derivationally Related Form:greedgraspingavariciousnessgreedinesscovetousnessavarice
Inherited Hypernyms:avaricious
Similar to:acquisitive
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