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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Fossil primates found in India.
  在印度发现的灵长类化石。
• 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。
• When it comes to researching intelligence in primates, chimpanzees and orang-utans get all the attention.
  当人们研究灵长类动物的智力水平的时候，所有的注意力都集中在黑猩猩和猩猩上。
• PRIMATES apart, few mammals employ tools.
  除了灵长类动物，会使用工具的哺乳类动物屈指可数。
• Among living and fossil primates, only anthropoids higher primates feed in such a manner.
  在生活和化石灵长类动物中，只有类人猿-高级灵长类动物-饲料以这种方式。
• 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。
• Nonhuman primates such as chimpanzees.
  例如黑猩猩等非人类灵长动物。