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

• 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。
• 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？
• A monkey has a prehensile tail.
  猴子有能盘卷住东西的尾巴。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。