prehensile

英 [prɪˈhensaɪl]

美 [prɪˈhensl]

adj.  能抓住东西的; 缠绕性的

GRE医学

BNC.43664 / COCA.36087

牛津词典

adj.

• 能抓住东西的；缠绕性的
  able to hold things
  1. the monkey's prehensile tail
     猴子能缠住东西的尾巴

双语例句

• Or to bring it a little bit closer to home, does it mean that the purpose of the prehensile thumb is for grasping?
  或者，更详细地说，它是不是意味着，能握住东西的拇指就是为了抓东西而存在的？
• A monkey's prehensile tail.
  猴子善于抓握的尾巴。
• A prehensile thumb is not FOR grasping.
  可抓拿的拇指也不是为抓拿而存在。
• Monkey's prehensile tails allow them to cling to trees in seemingly impossible position.
  猴子适合抓握的尾巴，使他们能以看起来不可能的姿势攀附着树木。
• The monkey's prehensile tail
  猴子那能缠住东西的尾巴
• RESULTS: The clomipramine treated group showed significant improvements in the screen prehensile test, while no marked difference was found between the two groups in the avulsing sticky label test.
  结果：氯丙米嗪组的网屏握持功能较对照组明显改善，而两组的胶布撕脱试验之间无明显差别。
• Any of several tropical American monkeys of the genus Ateles, having long legs and a long prehensile tail and lacking a thumb.
  几种蜘蛛猴属热带美洲猴中任一种，生有长腿及可缠绕的长尾巴，没有拇指。
• The term may also denote the limb or the locomotive or prehensile organ of an invertebrate ( e.g., the ray of a starfish or the tentacle of an octopus).
  arm一词亦指无脊椎动物的附肢或运动器官，如海星的腕、章鱼的触手和腕足纲动物的腕足。
• The savanna browsing black rhino has a prehensile lip for feeding on shrubs.
  热带大草原的啮草黑犀牛有能卷握东西的嘴唇，可以用于吸食灌木的嫩枝叶。
• Now in the case of language, we have to suppose as a matter of fact that language, as it were, appeared among us in the same way that the prehensile thumb did.
  现在拿语言来说，我们必须假设，实际上，语言本身，就像能握住东西的拇指一样出现在我们身边。