primates

英 [praɪˈmeɪtiːz]

美 [ˈpraɪˌmeɪts]

n.  灵长类; 灵长目动物; 大主教; 总主教
primate的复数

医学

柯林斯词典

The pronunciation /'praɪmeɪt/ is also used for meaning 2. 义项2亦读作 /'praɪmeɪt/。


• N-COUNT 灵长类（动物）
  Aprimateis a member of the group of mammals which includes humans, monkeys, and apes.
  1. The woolly spider monkey is the largest primate in the Americas.
     绒毛蛛猴是美洲最大的灵长类动物。
• N-COUNT 大主教；首席主教
  The Primate ofa particular country or region is the most important priest in that country or region.
  1. ...the Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland.
     全爱尔兰天主教大主教

英英释义

noun

• an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings
  Synonym:order Primates

双语例句

• The branch of zoology that studies primates.
  动物学中研究灵长类动物的分支。
• Also known as snow monkeys, Japanese macaques are the world's northernmost non-human primates.
  日本猕猴又称为雪猴，是人类以外生活在地球最北方的灵长类动物。
• Laughter may even have evolved long before primates.
  笑甚至可能在灵长类出现很久以前就已经演化形成。
• These primates used their hands for plucking fruit and leaves.
  这些灵长类动物用前肢采摘水果和树叶。
• ( zoology) at or near the hind end in quadrupeds or toward the spine in primates.
  （动物学）四足动物身上处于或者靠近后部的，或者灵长动物身上朝向脊骨的。
• Any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet.
  灵长目中有胎盘的哺乳动物；视力好，手、脚灵活。
• The Ebola virus is deadly to both people and primates, such as gorillas and chimpanzees.
  埃博拉病毒对于人类和灵长类（例如大猩猩和黑猩猩）都是致命的，它会导致发热和严重的内出血。
• For example, primates rely more on vision than olfaction; for rats, the opposite is true.
  例如灵长类比较依赖视觉，而不是嗅觉，而鼠类正相反。
• They have unusually large heads; they have unusually large bodies compared to other primates.
  他们通常有个大大的脑袋，同其他灵长类动物比起来，他们的身体也大得不一般。
• Primates, however, instinctively huddle in much smaller groups than humans because their brains are smaller.
  然而，灵长类动物本能地选择在一个小得多的群体中生活，因为它们的大脑比人类小。