Definition of prehensile

• adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object; "a monkeys prehensile tail"
• having a keen intellect; "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch
• immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbors fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"