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Definitions of primate
  1. noun
    a senior clergyman and dignitary
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  2. noun
    any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet
Definition that contains primate
  • monkey any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)
  • ape person who resembles a nonhuman primate
  • ape any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all
  • primate any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet
  • canterbury a town in Kent in southeastern England; site of the cathedral where Thomas a Becket was martyred in 1170; seat of the archbishop and primate of the Anglican Church
  • ebola a severe and often fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys and chimpanzees) caused by the Ebola virus; characterized by high fever and severe internal bleeding; can be spread from person to person; is largely limited to Africa
  • hominid a primate of the family Hominidae
  • carpal any of the eight small bones of the wrist of primates
  • anthropoid person who resembles a nonhuman primate
  • hominoid a primate of the superfamily Hominoidea
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