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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Poets are those strangely prehensile men.
  诗人是那些具有深刻洞察力的人们。