prehensile

Adjective

• 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
    

• having a keen intellect
  • poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men- A.T.Quiller-Couch
    

• adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object
  • a monkey's prehensile tail
    

Related words

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