prehensile

Meaning of prehensile

adjective
  1. (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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