primate

primate怎么读

英式音标：[ˈpraɪmeɪt]

美式音标：[ˈpraɪmɪt, -ˌmet]

primate基本解释

n. 大主教；灵长类的动物；首领

adj. 灵长目动物的；首要的

primate的意思释义

n.

灵长目动物；（英国教会的）大主教；首领；监督长

adj.

灵长目动物的；首要的；

变形

复数：primates

英英释义

n.

a senior clergyman and dignitary

同义词：archpriesthierarchhigh priestprelate

any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet

primate用法及例句

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

Compared to body size, the primate brain is larger than that of other animals.

相对身躯而言，灵长目动物的大脑比其他动物的大脑都要大些。

This is the rarest primate species on earth, and the Endangered Primate Rescue Center had only one couple in captivity.

这是世界上较罕见的灵长目物种，援救濒临灭绝灵长目动物中心只囚禁了一对。

例句参考

A Composite Estimate of Primate Phylogeny

The Reward Circuit: Linking Primate Anatomy and Human Imaging

Circuitry of primate prefrontal cortex and regulation of behavior by representational memory

Distributed hierarchical processing in the primate cerebral cortex.

Topography of Cognition: Parallel Distributed Networks in Primate Association Cortex

A primate model of parkinsonism: selective destruction of dopaminergic neurons in the pars compacta of the substantia nigra by N-met...

Influence of Reward Expectation on Behavior-Related Neuronal Activity in Primate Striatum

Modifications of reward expectation-related neuronal activity during learning in primate striatum.

Felleman, D. J. & Van Essen, V. C. Distributed hierarchical processing in primate visual cortex. Cereb. Cortex 1, 1-47

primate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相关例句

1.A primate of the family Hominidae, of which Homo sapiens is the only extant species.

人科的（动物）人科中的灵长类，其中智人是唯一现存的种类

4.a primate of the superfamily Hominoidea.

人总科的一种灵长类动物。