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PRIMATE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("primate" is a kind of...):
eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "primate"):
tarsier (nocturnal arboreal primate of Indonesia and the Philippines having huge eyes and digits ending in pads to facilitate climbing; the only primate that spurns all plant material as food living entirely on insects and small vertebrates)
simian (an ape or monkey)
ape (any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all)
anthropoid (any member of the suborder Anthropoidea including monkeys and apes and hominids)
hominoid (a primate of the superfamily Hominoidea)
hominid (a primate of the family Hominidae)
monkey (any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians))
prosimian (primitive primates having large ears and eyes and characterized by nocturnal habits)
lemur (large-eyed arboreal prosimian having foxy faces and long furry tails)
Holonyms ("primate" is a member of...):
order Primates; Primates (an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A senior clergyman and dignitary
Synonyms:
archpriest; hierarch; high priest; prelate; primate
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("primate" is a kind of...):
priest (a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders)
Instance hyponyms:
Gloomy Dean; Inge; William Ralph Inge (English prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954))
Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros; Jimenez de Cisneros (prelate who was the confessor of Isabella I and who was later appointed Grand Inquisitor (1436-1517))
Cardinal Newman; John Henry Newman; Newman (English prelate and theologian who (with John Keble and Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford movement; Newman later turned to Roman Catholicism and became a cardinal (1801-1890))
Armand Jean du Plessis; Cardinal Richelieu; Duc de Richelieu; Richelieu (French prelate and statesman; principal minister to Louis XIII (1585-1642))
Desmond Tutu; Tutu (South African prelate and leader of the antiapartheid struggle (born in 1931))
James Usher; James Ussher; Usher; Ussher (Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656))
William of Wykeham; Wykeham (English prelate and statesman; founded a college at Oxford and Winchester College in Winchester; served as chancellor of England and bishop of Winchester (1324-1404))
Stefan Wyszynski; Wyszynski (Polish prelate who persuaded the Soviet to allow greater religious freedom in Poland (1901-1981))
Derivation:
primateship (the office of primate)
Context examples:
A. actinomycetemcomitans is an oral commensal in humans and Old World primates, and may be a cause of periodontal disease.
(Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans, NCI Thesaurus)
A team of scientists from the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences in Shanghai, China have announced the first-ever cloning of a primate from post-embryonic cells, namely two macaque monkeys.
(Healthy cloned monkeys born in Shanghai, Wikinews)
This primate has a long dog-like muzzles, close-set eyes, heavy powerful jaws, thick fur, a short tail and often brightly colored ischial callosities.
(Baboon, NCI Thesaurus)
Found in gastric mucosa of primates, including human beings and ferrets.
(Helicobacter, NCI Thesaurus)
Moreover, their brain scans and autopsy studies of brains from nonhuman primates confirmed the results seen in humans, suggesting the lymphatic system is a common feature of mammalian brains.
(NIH researchers uncover drain pipes in our brains, National Institutes of Health)
Most striking among the new species are the dolphin Inia araguaiaensis, found in the River Araguaia basin, and the new primate species, the fire-tailed titi-monkey Plecturocebus miltoni.
(Report unveils 381 new plant and animal species in Amazon, Agência Brasil)
Any of a family (Hominidae) of erect bipedal primate mammals comprising recent humans together with extinct ancestral and related forms.
(Hominid, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)
A medium-sized diurnal primate that is omnivorous, Chlorocebus sabaeus has a life span of 10 years in the wild and 25 years in captivity.
(African Green Monkey, NCI Thesaurus)
Filoviridae infect primates, pigs and bats in nature and are a causitive agent of viral hemorrhagic fevers in humans and primates.
(Filoviridae, NCI Thesaurus)
Any haplorhine primate not belonging to the family Tarsiidae, Hylobatidae, Pongidae, or Hominidae; this does not correspond to any taxon.
(Monkey, NCI Thesaurus)
