prehensile

英[prɪ'hensaɪl] 美[prɪ'hensl]
  • adj. (动物的尾足等)适于抓握的；有理解力的；贪婪的
prehensility
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详细释义

Adjective:
  1. adapted for grasping especially by wrapping around an object;

    "a monkey's prehensile tail"

  2. having a keen intellect;

    "poets--those gifted strangely prehensile men"

  3. 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"

双语例句

1. the monkey's prehensile tail
猴子能缠住东西的尾巴

来自《权威词典》

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

来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

3. 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.

来自辞典例句

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

来自辞典例句

5. 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.

来自辞典例句

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