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Primates

/ˈpɹaɪmeɪts/

A mammal of the order Primates, including simians and prosimians.

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noun

1
A mammal of the order Primates, including simians and prosimians.
"Primates range from lemurs to gorillas."
2
A simian anthropoid; an ape, human or monkey.

noun

1
In the Catholic Church, a rare title conferred to or claimed by the sees of certain archbishops, or the highest-ranking bishop of a present or historical, usually political circumscription.
2
In the Orthodox Church, the presiding bishop of an ecclesiastical jurisdiction or region. Usually, the expression primate refers to the first hierarch of an autocephalous or autonomous Orthodox church. Less often, it is used to refer to the ruling bishop of an archdiocese or diocese.
3
In the Anglican Church, an archbishop, or the highest-ranking bishop of an ecclesiastic province.

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order primatesnoun	an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Primates"

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Word	Definition
order primatesnoun	an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings
apesnoun	A primate of the superfamily Hominoidea, generally larger than monkeys and distinguished from them by having no tail.
chimpsnoun	(offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
monkeys	the 1986 debut novel of American writer Susan Minot.
prosimiannoun	A primate that is not a monkey or an ape, generally nocturnal with large eyes and ears. Such primates were formerly grouped in the suborder Prosimii, but are now considered a paraphyletic group and not a clade.
anthropoidsnoun	An anthropoid animal.
simiansnoun	An ape or monkey, especially an anthropoid (infraorder Simiiformes).
homininsnoun	(paleontology) Any member of the taxonomic tribe Hominini, the evolutionary group that includes modern humans and now-extinct bipedal relatives.
hominidsnoun	Any primate of the taxonomic family Hominidae, which includes all the nonhuman great apes (chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans) as well as humans.
hominoidsnoun	Any primate (including humans and apes) belonging to the superfamily Hominoidea.
lemursnoun	Any strepsirrhine primate of the superfamily Lemuroidea, native only to Madagascar and some surrounding islands.
galagosnoun	Any of several species of small, nocturnal and arboreal African primates, of the family Galagidae, with a catlike head and very large, translucent eyes.
lorisesnoun	—
cercopithecoidsnoun	(zoology) Any species of the superfamily Cercopithecoidea (the Old World monkeys).
catarrhinesnoun	Any animal of this group
platyrrhinesnoun	(zoology) Any New World monkey of the Platyrrhini
prosimiansnoun	A primate that is not a monkey or an ape, generally nocturnal with large eyes and ears. Such primates were formerly grouped in the suborder Prosimii, but are now considered a paraphyletic group and not a clade.
tarsiersnoun	An insectivorous primate of the family Tarsiidae, having very large eyes and long feet, native mainly to several islands of Southeast Asia.
ethologynoun	(zoology) The scientific study of animalian behavior, especially that of nonhuman animals.
mammalian species	—