prehensile
UKpriːhensail
معنی فارسی
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معنی کامل و مثالها
/prē hen´sil, -sǝl, -sīl´/adj.
● (دست یا دم - قادر به گرفتن و نگهداشتن) گرفتگر
most monkeys have prehensile tails
اکثر میمونها دمهای گرفتگر دارند.
ریشه و کاربرد
ریشه
From Latin 'prehensilis' meaning 'able to seize'.
مثال
- The monkey used its prehensile tail to swing from branch to branch.
- Elephants have prehensile trunks that they use to pick up objects.
- The prehensile toes of the bird allow it to grip onto branches.
ترکیبهای رایج
Prehensile tail Prehensile trunk Prehensile toes
تعریف انگلیسی
adjective
- adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object “a monkey's prehensile tail”
- having a keen intellect “poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch”
- 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”