Definitions for Primates

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Primates Pri·ma·tes

Spelling: [prahy-mey-teez]

IPA: /praɪˈmeɪ tiz/

Primates is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 679 anagrams from letters in Primates (aeimprst).

Definitions for Primates

noun

1. the order comprising the primates.
2. Ecclesiastical. an archbishop or bishop ranking first among the bishops of a province or country.
3. any of various omnivorous mammals of the order Primates, comprising the three suborders Anthropoidea (humans, great apes, gibbons, Old World monkeys, and New World monkeys), Prosimii (lemurs, loris, and their allies), and Tarsioidea (tarsiers), especially distinguished by the use of hands, varied locomotion, and by complex flexible behavior involving a high level of social interaction and cultural adaptability.
4. Archaic. a chief or leader.

Origin of Primates

1765-75; New Latin, plural of Latin prīmās one of the first, chief, principal. See primate

Examples for Primates

At this date Clare also had a chapel, which was used at the Primates visitation in 1401.

Big cats, bears, Primates, and snakes seem obviously dangerous -- at least to those not trying to show off to their rich friends.

Again, the meeting of Primates is summoned for early in March.

We check the human cases, and the Primates in the experimental laboratories.

Among none of the first three branches can we look for the ancestors of the Primates.

Chimpanzees and other Primates carry many other viruses, one of which might well become the next HIV.

Each year, roughly 21,000 Primates are imported to the United States from tropical regions around the world.

One weakness of the Primates is the character of their self-consciousness.

Promising work has been completed in rodents but none yet has been reported in Primates.

He was often called the Monkey Man because of the Primates and other wild animals he kept on his 21-acre property.