meaning of prehensiles

1. Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey.
2.
immoderately desirous of acquiring e. g. wealth; "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"; "casting covetous eyes on his neighbors fields"; "a grasping old miser"; "grasping commercialism"; "greedy for money and power"; "grew richer and greedier"; "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their ">employees"


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