Definition of Primates

1. Noun. An animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings.


Definition of Primates

1. n. pl. The highest order of mammals. It includes man, together with the apes and monkeys. Cf. Pitheci.

Definition of Primates

1. Noun. (plural of primate) ¹

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Definition of Primates

1. primate [n] - See also: primate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Primates

primary solid solution
primary source
primary structure
primary syphilis
primary teeth
primary tooth
primary transcript
primary valence
primary winding
primas
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primatals
primate
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primavera
primaveras

Literary usage of Primates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mammalian Models for Research on Aging by Bennett J. Cohen, Institute Of Laboratory Animal Resources, National Research Council Staff (1981)
"Table 24 presents the results of a l979 census of aged nonhuman primates in US ... Several features of the population of aged nonhuman primates are clear ..."

2. The Origin and Evolution of the Human Dentition by William King Gregory (1922)
"In 1910, I argued that the existing tree-shrews have preserved many intermediate conditions tending to connect the Primates ..."

3. A History of Greece: From Its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time, B by George Finlay (1877)
"The confidence inspired by this conviction was so great, that the primates deemed it necessary to adopt some precautions to allay the popular effervescence. ..."

4. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1903)
"That the bearing of the evidence of this section on the problem of the origin of the Higher Primates may be quickly grasped, it is necessary to state ..."

5. Vertebrate Zoölogy by Horatio Hackett Newman (1920)
"The traditional position allotted to the primates is the last and highest ... The primates may be defined as primarily arboreal animals with prehensile ..."

6. Vertebrate Zoölogy by Horatio Hackett Newman (1920)
"The primates may be defined as primarily arboreal animals with prehensile limbs; ... Probably the best among many classifications of the primates is that of ..."

7. A History of Land Mammals in the Western Hemisphere by William Berryman Scott (1913)
"CHAPTER XV HISTORY OF THE Primates THIS order embraces the lemurs, monkeys, ... The Primates are characteristically arboreal in habit, but a few, ..."

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