primate怎么读
音标：英 ['praɪmeɪt; -mət]
美['praɪmet]
primate是什么意思
- n. 大主教；灵长类的动物；首领
- adj. 灵长目动物的；首要的
primate的词态变化
复数: primates;
助记提示
1、prim- + -ate.
2、含义：high bishop; animal of the biological order including monkeys and humans, so called from supposedly being the "highest" order of mammals (originally also including bats).
2、含义：high bishop; animal of the biological order including monkeys and humans, so called from supposedly being the "highest" order of mammals (originally also including bats).
中文词源
primate 灵长类动物
来自prime,第一的，最初的，首要的，-ate,名词后缀。后用于指灵长类动物。
英文词源
- primate (n.)
- "high bishop," c. 1200, from Old French primat and directly from Medieval Latin primatem (nominative primas) "church primate," noun use of Late Latin adjective primas "of the first rank, chief, principal," from primus "first" (see prime (adj.)).
Meaning "animal of the biological order including monkeys and humans" is attested from 1876, from Modern Latin Primates (Linnæus), from plural of Latin primas; so called from supposedly being the "highest" order of mammals (originally also including bats).
primate的双语例句
- 1. The woolly spider monkey is the largest primate in the Americas.
- 绒毛蛛猴是美洲最大的灵长类动物。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. 14 per cent of primate species are highly endangered.
- 14%的灵长类物种处于高度濒危状态。
来自辞典例句
- 3. 14 percent of primate species are highly endangered.
- 14%的灵长类物种处于高度濒危状态。
来自辞典例句
- 4. And any primate can harbor deadly infectious agents.
- 而且,任何灵长类都潜藏着致死性感染病原物.
来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 医学的第四次革命
- 5. Primate models of amnesia: Contribution of specific medial temporal - lobe areas.
- 遗忘症的灵长类模式: 特定中颞叶区域的贡献.
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