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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - Fossil primates found in India.
在印度发现的灵长类化石。 - ( 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。 - All primates are facially expressive.
所有灵长类动物都有面部表情。 - 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。 - Nonhuman primates such as chimpanzees.
例如黑猩猩等非人类灵长动物。 - Human vision like that of other primates has evolved in an arboreal environment.
人类的视觉，和其它灵长目动物的一样，是在丛林环境中进化出来的。 - This capacity is found in a very small number of species, including humans and some other primates.
专家们还发现只有一小部分物种有这种能力，包括人类及一些其他灵长类动物。