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prehensile
英 [prɪ'hensaɪl]
美[prɪ'hɛnsl]
- adj. 适于抓握的；善于领会的
英英释意
- 1. adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object;
- "a monkey's prehensile tail"
- 2. having a keen intellect;
- "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch
- 3. 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"