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

• Extinct primates; lower Pliocene.
  上新世后期已灭绝的灵长类。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The Ebola virus is deadly to both people and primates, such as gorillas and chimpanzees.
  埃博拉病毒对于人类和灵长类（例如大猩猩和黑猩猩）都是致命的，它会导致发热和严重的内出血。