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

• 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。
• The savanna browsing black rhino has a prehensile lip for feeding on shrubs.
  热带大草原的啮草黑犀牛有能卷握东西的嘴唇，可以用于吸食灌木的嫩枝叶。
• 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。
• Poets are those strangely prehensile men.
  诗人是那些具有深刻洞察力的人们。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• The monkey's prehensile tail
  猴子那能缠住东西的尾巴
• 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。