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

• 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。
• The term may also denote the limb or the locomotive or prehensile organ of an invertebrate ( e.g., the ray of a starfish or the tentacle of an octopus).
  arm一词亦指无脊椎动物的附肢或运动器官，如海星的腕、章鱼的触手和腕足纲动物的腕足。
• A prehensile thumb is not FOR grasping.
  可抓拿的拇指也不是为抓拿而存在。
• 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。
• Arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair. With lively hand, she exemplified cats'whiskers sprouting.
  亚洲树栖的灵猫，有易于缠绕的长尾巴和粗浓的黑毛。她用灵巧的手比划着猫在长胡须。
• A monkey has a prehensile tail.
  猴子有能盘卷住东西的尾巴。
• A monkey's prehensile tail.
  猴子善于抓握的尾巴。
• The monkey's prehensile tail
  猴子那能缠住东西的尾巴
• 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。
• 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。