prehensile

adjective

1. 1

   immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth

   they are avaricious and will do anything for money

   casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields

2. 2

   adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object

   a monkey's prehensile tail

3. 3

   having a keen intellect

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