Prehensile meaning in Hindi

Prehensile is a english word.

Prehensile Meaning in Hindi (हिंदी में मतलब)

  • prehensile = परिग्राही

    • Usage: Lizards have prehensile tongue which helps them to catch their prey.

Prehensile Meaning in Detail

  • prehensile (adj) = adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object

    Synonyms: prehensile

    • Usage: a monkey's prehensile tail

  • prehensile (adj) = having a keen intellect

    Synonyms: prehensile

    • Usage: poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch

  • prehensile (adj) = immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth

    Synonyms: avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, prehensile

    • Usage: they are avaricious and will do anything for money
    • Usage: casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields
    • Usage: a grasping old miser
    • Usage: grasping commercialism
    • Usage: greedy for money and power
    • Usage: grew richer and greedier
    • Usage: prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees
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