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Definitions of primates in various dictionaries:
noun - an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings
noun - a senior clergyman and dignitary
noun - any placental mammal of the order Primates
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| This order of mammals is often divided into prosimians & larger, smarter anthropoids |
| Bush babies are tree-dwelling members of this order that includes human babies |
| This order of mammals is divided into prosimians & anthropoids |
| Gorillas belong to this order of mammals which also includes monkeys, lemurs & man |
| This order of mammals is divided into prosimians & anthropoids |
| Gorillas are mammals that belong to this scientific order that includes lemurs & marmosets |
| Gorillas, like human beings, belong to this order |
| Lemurs & humans both belong to this animal order |
| The tarsier, the pygmy marmoset & the baboon all belong to this order of mammals |
| The fossil of Eosimias suggests a transitional figure between lower & higher members of this order of mammals |
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| Plural form of primate. |
| the chief bishop or archbishop of a province. |
| an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings |
| Primates description |
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A primate ( ( listen) PRY-mayt) is a mammal of the order Primates (Latin: "prime, first rank"). In taxonomy, primates include two distinct lineages, strepsirrhines and haplorhines. Primates arose from ancestors that lived in the trees of tropical forests; many primate characteristics represent adaptations to life in this challenging environment. Most primate species remain at least partly arboreal. * With the exception of humans, who inhabit every continent, most primates live in tropical or subtropical regions of the Americas, Africa and Asia. They range in typical size from Madame Berthe's mouse lemur, which weighs only 30 g (1 oz), to the eastern gorilla, weighing over 200 kg (440 lb). Based on fossil evidence, the earliest known true primates, represented by the genus Teilhardina, date to 55.8 mya. An early close primate relative known from abundant remains is the Late Paleocene Plesiadapis, c. 5558 million years old. Molecular clock studies suggest that the primate branch may be eve |