Definition of prehensile

Scrabble & Words with friends points

• prehensile is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 15
• prehensile is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 15
• prehensile is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 17

Definition of prehensile

• immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth (adjective)

  Examples

  1. prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees

  Synonyms

  1. avaricious
  2. covetous
  3. grabby
  4. grasping
  5. greedy
• having a keen intellect (adjective)

  Examples

  1. poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men
• adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object ()

  Examples

  1. a monkey's prehensile tail

See definition of prehensile in Merriam Webster