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

• A civet ( Arctictis binturong) of southeast Asia with a long, prehensile tail. The hat is made of beaver.
  熊狸，香猫产于东南亚的香猫（北极熊狸），有易于缠绕的长尾巴这顶帽子是海狸毛皮制的。
• Poets are those strangely prehensile men.
  诗人是那些具有深刻洞察力的人们。
• 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。
• 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。
• Small toothless anteater with prehensile tale and four-clawed forelimbs; of tropical South and Central America.
  小型无齿食蚁兽，尾巴缠住东西，前肢有四只带爪的趾；产于热带南美和中美。
• Arboreal monkey of tropical America with long slender legs and long prehensile tail.
  产于美洲热带的树栖猴，腿长而细，尾长且宜于盘卷。
• 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。
• 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。
• Arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail.
  美洲热带具有长而可缠绕性尾巴的树栖食果类哺乳动物。