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rhesus

/ree-suhs/US // ˈri səs //UK // (ˈriːsəs) //

恒河猴,猕猴,恒河沙数,恒河猴的

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a macaque, Macaca mulatta, of India, used in experimental medicine.

Examples

  • In April, researchers working with the company showed off videos of a rhesus monkey named Pager who can play the classic paddle game using thought signals.

  • An odd new study involving rhesus macaque monkeys, ethanol, and vaccines has found some benefit to moderate drinking.

  • The great rhesus wars of 2012 demonstrate just that, and show us that healthy food, not less food, is important for a long life.

  • But is the latest rhesus news really a victory for the slobs and snails?

  • Odysseus drives the horses of Rhesus out of the camp with the bow of Meriones; he has forgotten to take the whip from the chariot.

  • The Rhesus, a feeble production long attributed to Euripides, is almost certainly not his work.

  • One, the work of the American, Kinnaman, on two Rhesus monkeys.

  • Rhesus slept in the midst, and beside him his swift horses were fastened by the reins to the outer rim 357 of the chariot.

  • They were probably the Indian baboon (Macacus rhesus) and, for animals which had not been hunted, were most extraordinarily wild.