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 monkey's prehensile tail.
  猴子善于抓握的尾巴。
• 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。
• 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。
• Poets are those strangely prehensile men.
  诗人是那些具有深刻洞察力的人们。
• Nocturnal arboreal marsupial having a naked prehensile tail found from southern North America to northern South America.
  夜间树栖有袋动物，有能盘卷住东西的无毛的尾巴，见于从北美洲南部到南美洲北部的地区。
• Hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails.
  脸上有毛的树栖猴，鼻孔分得很开，尾巴长而适于盘卷。
• 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？
• 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。
• 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。