“preprimate”的英英意思

单词	preprimate
释义	preˈprimate [pre- B. 1.] An evolutionary ancestor of the primates, or an animal showing characteristics that are more highly developed in the primates. 1931E. A. Hooton Up from Ape ii. 67 Our arboreal pre-primate ancestors must have been very closely similar to the existing tree shrews of the Order Insectivora.Ibid. 69 When the insectivorous pre-primate became a hand⁓feeder and a manipulator of objects, it opened up for its descendants a new route of evolutionary progress.1971G. H. Bourne Ape People xiii. 322 The slope of the jaw seemed to be more like that of a modern preprimate known as the tarsier.

　

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