Noun
- 1. Primates, order Primates, animal order
- usage: an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings
Noun
- 1. Primates, order Primates, animal order
- usage: a senior clergyman and dignitary
- 2. archpriest, hierarch, high priest, prelate, primate, priest
- usage: any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet
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