英语词汇“quadrumanous”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

quadrumanous

释义

quadrumanous, a.|kwəˈdruːmənəs|
Also 8 quadri-.
[f. mod.L. quadruman-us (see Quadrumana) + -ous.]
Belonging to the order of Quadrumana; four-handed.
[1699Tyson Orang-Out. 91 Our Pygmie is..tho' a Biped, yet of the Quadrumanus-kind.Ibid. 94 The Orang-Outang..being Quadrumanus, like the Ape-kind.]1819W. Lawrence Lect. Physiol. Zool. 128 All the simiæ, and the lemurs likewise, are quadrumanous.1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 152 Not a single bone of a quadrumanous animal has ever yet been discovered in a fossil state.1860Emerson Cond. Life, Fate Wks. (Bohn) II. 317 He betrays his relation to what is below him—small-brained, fishy, quadrumanous quadruped.1874Wood Nat. Hist. 2 The Quadrumanous, or Four-handed animals, are familiarly known by the titles of Apes, Baboons, and Monkeys.
b. Ape-like (in destructiveness).
1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 308 At this malicious game they display the whole of their quadrimanous activity.

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