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Definitions of primates
  1. noun
    an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings

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  • monkey any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians)
  • 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
  • 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
  • carpal any of the eight small bones of the wrist of primates
  • scandentia a small order comprising only the tree shrews: in some classifications tree shrews are considered either primates (and included in the suborder Prosimii) or true insectivores (and included in the order Insectivora)
  • genus sivapithecus extinct primates; lower Pliocene
  • adapid group extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; their descendents probably include the lemurs; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins
  • omomyid extinct tiny nocturnal lower primates that fed on fruit and insects; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; probably gave rise to the tarsiers; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins
  • pant-hoot communicate by hooting and panting, as of primates
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