Associations to the word «Primates»

Wiktionary

PRIMATES, noun. Plural of primate
PRIMATES, proper noun. A taxonomic order within the superorder Euarchontoglires   — the primates, including monkeys and apes.

Dictionary definition

PRIMATES, noun. An animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope