primates
英 [praɪˈmeɪtiːz]
美 [ˈpraɪˌmeɪts]
n. 灵长类; 灵长目动物; 大主教; 总主教
primate的复数
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 灵长类（动物）
Aprimateis a member of the group of mammals which includes humans, monkeys, and apes.- 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。
- The woolly spider monkey is the largest primate in the Americas.
- 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.- ...the Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland.
全爱尔兰天主教大主教
- ...the Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland.
The pronunciation /'praɪmeɪt/ is also used for meaning 2. 义项2亦读作 /'praɪmeɪt/。
英英释义
noun
- an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings
双语例句
- 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。 - The death was the result of chimpanzees, perhaps it is the closest human primates with a Branch.
而黑猩猩之所以出现死亡病例，或许与它是灵长目内与人类最接近的一科有关。 - ( 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。 - 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。 - Fossil primates found in India.
在印度发现的灵长类化石。 - 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。 - 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。 - The study says increasing contact between humans and primates due to logging and deforestation raises the risk of transmission of new pathogens.
研究报告称，由于伐木和滥伐森林，人类和灵长类动物之间的接触机会增多，增加了新的病原体传播的风险。 - Previous research in primates had suggested that expectation had little effect on how taste registers in the brain.
以前对灵长类的研究显示，期望对大脑中的味觉记录几乎没有效果。 - Genus of extinct primitive African Miocene primates; sometimes considered a subgenus of Dryopithecus.
已灭绝的原始非洲中新世灵长类的一个属；有时被认为是森林古猿属的亚属。