Primates
the order comprising the primates.
Origin of Primates
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How to use Primates in a sentence
But genes trump everything, even parenting by furry Primates.
Can Tarzan of the Apes Survive in a Post-Colonial World? | Ted Gioia | November 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTPromising work has been completed in rodents but none yet has been reported in Primates.
Big cats, bears, Primates, and snakes seem obviously dangerous -- at least to those not trying to show off to their rich friends.
For example, baby Primates are separated from their mothers, resulting in emotional trauma.
He was often called the Monkey Man because of the Primates and other wild animals he kept on his 21-acre property.
The larger revenues of the Primates, he said, were to be reduced respectively to the amounts of 10,000 and 8000 per annum.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. | E. Farr and E. H. NolanVery few of the Primates, except the rock and cliff-inhabiting baboons, ever made this great venture.
The New Stone Age in Northern Europe | John M. TylerOn his arrival there, Byron was visited by the Primates and officers of the place, who offered him their good offices.
Byron | Richard EdgcumbeNot only were the Primates and Mavrocordato affected on the occasion, but the poorest citizen felt that he had lost a friend.
Byron | Richard EdgcumbeThis alludes to a foregoing enumeration of the seven families of Primates headed by the Anthropini containing man alone.
Aphorisms and Reflections from the works of T. H. Huxley | Thomas Henry Huxley
Cultural definitions for primates
[ (preye-mayts) ]
The order of mammals that includes monkeys, apes, and human beings. Primates are distinguished from other animals in that they generally possess limbs capable of performing a variety of functions, hands and feet adapted for grasping (including opposable thumbs), flattened snouts, and other anatomical features. (See Linnean classification.)
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