英语释义

• immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth;

  "they are avaricious and will do anything for money"

  "casting covetous eyes on his neighbor's fields"

  "a grasping old miser"

  "grasping commercialism"

  "greedy for money and power"

  "grew richer and greedier"

  "prehensile employers stingy with raises for their employees"

• having a keen intellect;

  "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"- A.T.Quiller-Couch

• adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object;

  "a monkey's prehensile tail"

片语

interchangeable prehensile tool互换式抓握装置

prehensile organ抓握器官

prehensile flower虫媒花

prehensile input可理解的语言输入

prehensile e能抓物的

PREHENSILE-TAILED PORCUPINEThe prehensile-tailed porcupines or coendous (genus Coendou) are found in Central and South Americ They are closely related to the other Neotropical tree porcupines (genera Echinoprocta and Sphiggurus) .

prehensile tail卷尾

英汉例句

• 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。

• HARRISON FORD may be 65, but he still wields a prehensile bullwhip with aplomb and his punches sound as though they might fell an elephant.

  年近六十五岁的哈里森·福特，依旧沉着挥舞着他那收放自如的长鞭，声声鞭鸣置地有声，力量十足仿佛可以将大象击倒在地。

• They anchor themselves with their prehensile tails to sea grasses and corals, using their elongated snouts to suck in plankton and small crustaceans that drift by.

  它们靠卷尾在海草或珊瑚上来固定自身，用细长的吻部吸入浮游生物和漂游的小甲虫类。

• It is said that when the good burghers of Amsterdam were first presented with a rhinoceros-armoured, horned, three-toed, with a prehensile lip-spectators shook their heads in disbelief.

  据说，当善良的阿姆斯特丹市民第一次看到犀牛的时候——皮厚如甲、头上长角、三个脚趾，还有它那能卷握东西的嘴唇——都摇头不信。

• 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。

• A monkey has a prehensile tail.

  猴子有能盘卷住东西的尾巴。

• In fact, his lips appear to have an almost prehensile quality, as if they were an extra pair of hands, reaching out from his face to manipulate the world around him.

  事实上，他的嘴唇似乎可以缠绕起来，就像是脸上长出的两只手，操纵着周围的世界。

• The Celegians are a species of intelligent scyphozoans, appearing as floating brains trailing a cluster of prehensile tentacles.

  塞莱·吉亚人是一种钵水母纲的智慧种族，看起来就像漂浮的大脑曳挂着一串缠卷的触须。

• 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「s prehensile tail.

  猴子善于抓握的尾巴。

• Arboreal civet of Asia having a long prehensile tail and shaggy black hair.

  亚洲树栖的灵猫，有易于缠绕的长尾巴和粗浓的黑毛。

• 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。

• A prehensile thumb is not FOR grasping.

  可抓拿的拇指也不是为抓拿而存在。

• 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。

• Their most distinctive feature is a pair of shapely prehensile tentacles that grow from the base of their skulls.

  他们最显着的特征是头骨基部长出的一对触角。这对触角美观而适于抓物。

• They can do this on the ground, but also in trees due to their long claws and strong prehensile tails.

  它们不仅能在地上，而且能在树上拢食，因为它们有长爪以及长而可盘卷的尾巴。

• 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。

• They might even have hands, but then again why not a prehensile tail or a trunk instead?

  它们可能有手，但为何不是可以卷曲的尾巴或鼻子呢？

• They have prehensile lips for feeding on leaves and saplings.

  它们都具有能卷握东西的嘴唇，可用于取食树叶和树苗。