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Primates

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Noun

1. order primates, primates

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Primates

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noun
1. 
any placental mammal of the order Primates, typically having flexible hands and feet with opposable first digits, good eyesight, and, in the higher apes, a highly developed brain: includes lemurs, lorises, monkeys, apes, and man
adjective
2. 
of, relating to, or belonging to the order Primates
noun
1.  another name for archbishop
2.  Primate of all England
3.  Primate of England

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Primates

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noun
1.  Rare
a person with primacy
2. 
an archbishop, or the highest-ranking bishop in a province, etc.
3. 
any of an order (Primates) of mammals characterized esp. by flexible hands and feet, each with five digits, including humans, great apes, monkeys, and lemurs

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Primates

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n.
1. (prīmāt′) Any of various mammals of the order Primates, which consists of the lemurs, lorises, tarsiers, New World monkeys, Old World monkeys, and apes including humans, and is characterized by nails on the hands and feet, a short snout, and a large brain.
2. A bishop of highest rank in a province or country.

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