prehensile
Meaning of prehensile
adjective
- (chiefly of an animal's limb or tail) capable of grasping.
many monkeys have long, prehensile tails which they use in swinging through the trees
late 18th century: from French préhensile, from Latin prehens- ‘grasped’, from the verb prehendere, from prae ‘before’ + hendere ‘to grasp’.
Information about prehensile
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of prehensile
pre-hen-sile
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- prehensile is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
prehensile synonyms
Meaning avaricious:
avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy
Words that rhyme with prehensile
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