prehensile (
http://definr.com/prehensile)
adj 1: adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an
object; "a monkey's prehensile tail" [ant:
nonprehensile]
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" [syn:
avaricious,
covetous,
grabby,
grasping,
greedy]