Skip to main content

prehension

/pri-hen-shuhn/US // prɪˈhɛn ʃən //UK // (prɪˈhɛnʃən) //

预感,预言,预知力,预知能力

Related Words

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of seizing or grasping.
    • : mental apprehension.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inunderstanding

Examples

  • Upon this emancipation followed the liberation of jaws and mouth from their use as organs of prehension.

  • The trophi serve merely for the prehension of prey, and not for mastication.

  • It is wonderful, and passing wonder, how teachable and quick of perception and prehension is Nature in the studio of Art.

  • The extensions of the body-substance which are put forth by the Rhizopoda at will, and which serve for locomotion and prehension.

  • Having for its function the narrowing of the orifice it surrounds, it acts during suction and in the prehension of food.