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

• 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。
• 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。
• The yellow fever virus is constantly present in mosquitos and non-human primates in some tropical areas of Africa and the Americas.
  黄热病病毒持续存在于非洲和美洲某些热带地区的蚊子和非人灵长类动物中。
• Until now, babbling had been observed only in humans and a few primates, such as pygmy marmosets.
  到目前为止牙牙学语只在人类和一些灵长类动物中发现过。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• They have unusually large heads; they have unusually large bodies compared to other primates.
  他们通常有个大大的脑袋，同其他灵长类动物比起来，他们的身体也大得不一般。
• Nonhuman primates such as chimpanzees.
  例如黑猩猩等非人类灵长动物。
• Extinct primates; lower Pliocene.
  上新世后期已灭绝的灵长类。