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- primate
- A simian anthropoid; an ape, human, or large monkey
- In the Anglican Church, an archbishop, or the highest-ranking bishop of an ecclesiastic province
- 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 circonscription
- A mammal of the order Primates, including simians and prosimians
Primates range from lemures to gorillas.
- {n} a first or chief bishop, an archbishop
- {i} any highly developed mammal that engages in complex behaviors and social interaction (such as man, monkeys, etc.); archbishop; high cardinal
- the highest official of the Roman Catholic Church in a particular country
- A primate is a member of the group of mammals which includes humans, monkeys, and apes. The woolly spider monkey is the largest primate in the Americas
- the title given to the archbishop of a province
- any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet
- The Primate of a particular country or region is the most important priest in that country or region. the Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland. the most important priest in a country, especially in the Church of England = archbishop. a member of the group of animals that includes humans and monkeys (primat, from primas , from , , from primus; PRIME). any of more than 300 species of monkeys, apes, and other mammals of the order Primates. Primates are distinguished from other mammals by one or more of the following traits: unspecialized structure, specialized behaviour, short muzzle, comparatively poor sense of smell, prehensile five-digit hands and feet possessing flat nails instead of claws, acute vision with depth perception due to forward-facing eyes, large brain, and prolonged pre-and postnatal development. Most species bear a single young and live in troops headed by a male. The prosimians include eight families: lemurs (families Lemuridae, Indriidae, Cheirogaleidae, and Megaladapidae), the aye-aye (Daubentoniidae), galagos (Galagonidae), lorises (Loridae), and tarsiers (Tarsiidae). The anthropoids (a group called the Catarrhini) include nine families: New World monkeys (families Callitrichidae, Cebidae, Aotidae, Atelidae, and Pitheciidae), Old World monkeys (Cercopithecidae), the lesser apes (Hylobatidae), the great apes (Pongidae), and humans (Hominidae). The great apes are sometimes classified with humans in Hominidae. Although the first primates may have originated as early as 90 million years ago, the oldest known fossil remains are about 55 million years old
- The chief ecclesiastic in a national church; one who presides over other bishops in a province; an archbishop
- A mammal of the order Primates, including lemurs, monkeys, apes and humans
- the chief bishop of a single state or people
- the group of mammals the include humanity, with two main groups, anthropoids (humans, apes, monkeys) and prosimians (aye-ayes, galagos, lemurs, lorises, pottos, and tarsiers [2: Human Evolution]; [3: primates]; [3: non-human primates]; [3: Introduction to the Primates ]; [3: Prehistoric cultures and primates]
- In the Western Church, an archbishop, or the highest-ranking bishop of a province
- a creature that uses its access thumb, and make and/or use tools
- a senior clergyman and dignitary
- One of the Primates