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prehensile SimpleWikiWiktionaryGoogle検索CollinsCambridgeLongmanLongman英和Learners 【 112432 】 【意味】 "[形容詞] immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth [例] they are avaricious and will do anything for money [例] casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields [例] a grasping old miser [例] grasping commercialism [例] greedy for money and power [例] grew richer and greedier [例] prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees [例] He is a prehensile man. [例] The lawyer was a prehensile fellow who always wanted more money. [例] He was a prehensile man who wanted to get rich quick. [意味] 貪欲な, 強欲な, 欲深い, 貪欲の, 欲張りの, がめつい, どん欲の, 収攬の ; [同義語] grasping, greedy, avaricious, covetous, grabby ; [類似語] acquisitive ; [派生] grasping, seizing, greed, taking hold, cupidity, avarice, prehension, greediness ; [同義語群] 00029933-a" [形容詞] adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object [例] a monkey's prehensile tail [例] The monkey has a prehensile tail. [例] The monkeys used their prehensile tails to climb the tree. [例] They have prehensile tails. ; [反意語] nonprehensile ; [同義語群] 00128882-a [形容詞] having a keen intellect [例] poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men- A.T.Quiller-Couch [例] The prehensile student was able to solve the problem. [例] The monkeys have prehensile tails. [例] He was a prehensile fellow. ; [類似語] intelligent ; [同義語群] 01336084-a