Hyphenation of prehensile

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word prehensile? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

pre-hen-sile

Definitions of prehensile:

1.	Adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object A monkey's prehensile tail
2.	Having a keen intellect Poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men- A.T.Quiller-Couch
3.	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

Synonyms of prehensile:

adj	prehensile
adj	intelligent
adj	avaricious, covetous, grabby, grasping, greedy, acquisitive

Last hyphenations of this language

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