| 词汇 | prehensile |
| 释义 | prehensile adjective biology specializeduk /prɪˈhen.saɪl/ us /priːˈhen.sɪl/ (of parts of the body) able to hold on to things, especially by curling around them: （肢体部位）能抓的，能握的;（尤指）能缠绕的 a prehensile tail能缠绕的尾巴 Miscellaneous animal body parts back end blowhole bobtail caudate claw dorsal fin dorsally gill hindquarters nipple pincer pouch pouched pseudopod reticulum scut speculum sting teat udder Examples of prehensileprehensile The prominent role of the thumb during prehensile tasks is due to its position and mobility, thereby affording the hand its dextrous ability. There are several components that make up prehensile movements. These processes were and continue to be involved in constructing representations of transitive prehensile actions, not gestural communication. Servos et al. (1992) studied prehensile movements in healthy subjects with binocular and monocular vision. Whipple traced the evolution of papillary patterns from prehensile mammals through the lower primates and up to humans. As the precision grip is most commonly employed in natural manipulation (60% of all common dexterous actions4), conventional prostheses have tended to implement this prehensile form. He may be a little acquisitive and unduly prehensile, possibly, but he is intelligent and wide awake. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The pectoral fins are prehensile, helping the fish move along the sea bed. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It has prehensile pectoral fins, helping it to move along the seabed, and giving it its four-armed appearance. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The woodcock uses its long prehensile bill to probe in the soil for food, mainly invertebrates and especially earthworms. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Some species of earthworm can even use the prehensile prostomium to grab and drag items such as grasses and leaves into their burrow. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The species is equipped with powerful prehensile limbs, and poisonous fangs that function as hypodermic needles. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Graboids have a trio of long, powerful, snake-like tentacles, which are prehensile and have a reach of at least ten feet. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. First, prey can be captured by quickly flying out to grab it using the prehensile tarsi of the hind legs. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. It had powerful prehensile frontal appendages and large spherical eyes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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