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Definition: Prehensile |
PrehensileAdjective1. 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". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "prehensile" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Synonyms: PrehensileSynonyms: avaricious (adj), covetous (adj), grabby (adj), grasping (adj), greedy (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: nonprehensile (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Taking | Adjective: taking;Verb: privative, prehensile; predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial; lupine, rapacious, raptorial; ravenous; parasitic. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Prehensile |
| English words defined with "prehensile": Arctictis bintourong, Ateles geoffroyi, Avicularia ♦ Barrigudo, bearcat, binturong ♦ Caparro, Coendoo ♦ honey bear ♦ kinkajou ♦ lesser anteater ♦ New World monkey, nonprehensile ♦ opossum ♦ phalanger, Platyrhini, possum, Potos caudivolvulus, Potos flavus, potto, Prehensory ♦ Quadrumana ♦ Sapajou, Scaphopda, spider monkey, Subprehensile ♦ tamandu, tamandua, Tamandua tetradactyla, tentacle, Tree porcupine. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "prehensile": Prehend. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Prehensile" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Prehensile" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 11 | 106,044 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "prehensile": prehensile arm ♦ prehensile claw. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
definition prehensile | 9 |
prehensile | 8 |
prehensile tailed skink | 4 |
porcupine prehensile tailed | 3 |
prehensile toe | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "prehensile"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | që kapet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قادر على الإمساك بشىء. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | със силно морално чувство, със силно естетическо чувство, схватлив (apprehensive, apt, comprehensive, docile, nimble, quick, quick-witted, receptive, teachable), хватателен, за хващане. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | reuzenskink van de Salomonseilanden (prehensile-tailed skink, Tiliquine skink). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مخصوص گرفتن وچیدن برگ , قابض (Astringent, Styptic), گیرنده (Catcher, Catchy, Grantee, Holder, Payee, Receiver, Receptor, Recipient), گیرکننده , دارای استعدادهنری , درک کننده . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | préhensile. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | zum Greifen geeignet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συλλήψιμοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מסו'ל לתפוס. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kapaszkodó (clinging, handhold, handrail, stiff climb), fogó (clamp, extractor, forceps, grapple, grasping, gripping, handhold, handle, holder, it, nippers, pair of forceps, pliers, tagger, to be `it`, to be it, tongs). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | prensile. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | yn-ghreimmee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ehensilepray preênsil. (various references) цепкий (clingy, grasping, retentive, tenacious). (various references) prihvatan. (various references) prensil. (various references) med grip förmåga, grip- (grasping), dripbar. (various references) tutmaya yarayan, tutma yeteneği olan, kavrayabilen. (various references) хапальний. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Corucia zebrata. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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"Prehensile" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: prehensil, prehensility, prehentile, prehersile. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "prehensile" (pronounced 'Pre*hen"sile'): Circumfusile, Circumscissile, fissile, Fusile, Nonextensile, Pensile, Protrusile, Scissile, sessile, Subprehensile, tensile. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-h-i-l-n-p-r-s" | |
-1 letter: pelerines, replenish, spleenier. | |
-2 letters: ensphere, insphere, pelerine, pilsener, sheenier, sleepier. | |
-3 letters: erepsin, eserine, heelers, helpers, henries, hirples, inheres, liernes, peelers, peeries, pensile, pilsner, plenish, reheels, relines, repines, replies, reshine, seepier, sheenie, sleeper, spieler. | |
-4 letters: eelier, enisle, ensile, heeler, helper, herein, herpes, hirple, hirsel, hirsle, inhere, lepers, lierne, liners, lisper, nereis, peeler, peerie, penile, pensee. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-h-i-l-n-p-r-s" | |
+1 letter: replenished, replenisher, replenishes. | |
+2 letters: replenishers. | |
+3 letters: apprehensible, replenishable, replenishment, reprehensible, reprehensibly. | |
+4 letters: apprehensively, comprehensible, nephelometries, phenylephrines, prehensilities, replenishments. | |
+5 letters: comprehensively, hyperventilates, radiotelephones. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 65 68 65 6E 73 69 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. . .... . -. ... .. .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01100101 01101000 01100101 01101110 01110011 01101001 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r e h e n s i l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0065 0068 0065 006E 0073 0069 006C 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50847174718085757871 |
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