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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Fossil primates found in India.
  在印度发现的灵长类化石。
• 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。
• 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。
• The study says increasing contact between humans and primates due to logging and deforestation raises the risk of transmission of new pathogens.
  研究报告称，由于伐木和滥伐森林，人类和灵长类动物之间的接触机会增多，增加了新的病原体传播的风险。
• 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。
• 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。