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Noun: Primates  prI'mey-teez
  1. An animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings
    - order Primates
Noun: primate  'prI,meyt or prI-mut
  1. A senior clergyman and dignitary
    - archpriest, hierarch, high priest, prelate
     
  2. Any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet

Type of: animal order, eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal, priest

Part of: Eutheria, subclass Eutheria

Encyclopedia: Primates

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