We found 29 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word prehensile:
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 General (24 matching dictionaries)
- prehensile: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
- prehensile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
- prehensile: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
- prehensile: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
- Prehensile: Wiktionary [home, info]
- prehensile: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
- prehensile: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
- prehensile: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
- prehensile: Dictionary.com [home, info]
- prehensile: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
- prehensile: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
- Prehensile: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
- Prehensile: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
- prehensile: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
- prehensile: Rhymezone [home, info]
- Prehensile: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
- prehensile: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
- prehensile: Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words [home, info]
- prehensile: Free Dictionary [home, info]
- prehensile: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info]
- prehensile: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
- prehensile: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
- prehensile: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
- prehensile: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
- prehensile: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info]
- prehensile: online medical dictionary [home, info]
- prehensile: Medical dictionary [home, info]
Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
- prehensile: A Word A Day [home, info]
Science (1 matching dictionary)
- Prehensile: Biological Sciences Dictionary [home, info]
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Quick definitions (prehensile)
▸ adjective: having a keen intellect ("Poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men- A.T.Quiller-Couch")
▸ adjective: adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object ("A monkey's prehensile tail")
▸ adjective: immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth ("Prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees")
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