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• a  adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object
  a monkey's prehensile tail
• s  having a keen intellect
  poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch
• s  immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth
  prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees

• How do you get people to care about the budget cuts affecting your little corner of the imploding financial universe? You hire a prehensile-tailed porcupine named Wednesday to do .
• Thick-furred, with a red face, the monkey moves by sprawling out and brachiating from branch to branch through the high forest canopy; its long, prehensile tail functions as an arm.
• Original sin resided in the pinkish gray folds of the brain and expressed itself through brutish linkage, which operated the prehensile thumb.

• avaricious
• covetous
• grabby
• grasping
• greedy

• nonprehensile

News & Articles

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• Huge Porcupine Emits Terrifyingly Cute Noises
  Kemosabe, a prehensile porcupine, has squealed his way into the Internet's heart with his giant body, long tail and odd vocalizations. In this YouTube video from Animal Wonders Montana , this big guy squeaks and squeals in his tree fort as his caretaker feeds him banana slices and tickles his nose. He even has his own tiny basket to store yummy treats in. See also: The 75 Absolutely Cutest ...
  July 27, 2013 - Mashable

Quotes

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• Boris Johnson in Telegraph.co.uk
  I think it's going to go straight down to the wire, mate,said Boris, eyeing his interrogator warily. "This mayor is going to cling on to office like a limpet with prehensile buttocks."