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 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。
• Nonhuman primates such as chimpanzees.
  例如黑猩猩等非人类灵长动物。
• 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。
• Scientists were able to successfully treat infected primates following the onset of disease symptoms.
  在试验中，科学家们已经成功地治疗了开始出现病毒症状的灵长类动物。
• Vaccination programmes are now carried out in areas where outbreaks are observed in primates.
  在灵长类动物中已观察到疾病暴发流行的地区，疫苗接种计划正在实施。
• 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 yellow fever virus is constantly present in mosquitos and non-human primates in some tropical areas of Africa and the Americas.
  黄热病病毒持续存在于非洲和美洲某些热带地区的蚊子和非人灵长类动物中。
• 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 fossil, he says, bridges the evolutionary split between higher primates such as monkeys, apes, and humans and their more distant relatives such as lemurs.
  他说：这个化石是架起高等灵长类如猴、猿、人类和他们更远的亲戚如狐猴之间进化空缺的桥梁。
• 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。