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Primates   Listen
noun
Primates  n. pl.  (Zool.) The highest order of mammals. It includes man, together with the apes and monkeys. Cf. Pitheci.





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"Primates" Quotes from Famous Books



... refer you to a dull friend who will discourse to you of such matters. What should you think of a lover who should describe the idol of his heart in the language of science, thus: Class, Mammalia; Order, Primates; Genus, Homo; Species, Europeus; Variety, Brown; Individual, Ann Eliza; ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)


Words linked to "Primates" :   subclass Eutheria, Omomyid group, Adapid, suborder Tarsioidea, order Primates, suborder Lemuroidea, Eutheria, Adapid group, animal order, suborder Strepsirhini


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