| NOUN | animal | Primates, order Primates | an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings |
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| Sounds | pray'mey.ts | |
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| Rhymes | Gates ... Yeats: 8 rhymes with eyts... | |
| Meaning | An animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings. | |
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| Synonym | order Primates | |
| Member of | Eutheria, subclass Eutheria | All mammals except monotremes and marsupials |
| Members | Adapid, Adapid group | Extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit |
| Anthropoidea, suborder Anthropoidea | monkeys | |
| Lemuroidea, suborder Lemuroidea | Lemuridae | |
| Omomyid, Omomyid group | Extinct tiny nocturnal lower primates that fed on fruit and insects | |
| Prosimii, suborder Prosimii | not used in all classifications | |
| Strepsirhini, suborder Strepsirhini | In some classifications either coextensive with the Lemuroidea or comprising the true lemurs | |
| Tarsioidea, suborder Tarsioidea | In some classifications assigned to the suborder Prosimii | |
| primate | Any placental mammal of the order Primates | |
| Broader | animal order | The order of animals |
| Spanish | primates | |
| Catalan | Primates, Primat, primats | |
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