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ORDER PRIMATES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does order Primates mean? 

ORDER PRIMATES (noun)
  The noun ORDER PRIMATES has 1 sense:

1. an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beingsplay

  Familiarity information: ORDER PRIMATES used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ORDER PRIMATES (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

order Primates; Primates

Hypernyms ("order Primates" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "order Primates"):

primate (any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet)

Anthropoidea; suborder Anthropoidea (monkeys; apes; hominids)

Prosimii; suborder Prosimii (not used in all classifications; in some classifications considered coextensive with the Lemuroidea; in others includes both Lemuroidea and Tarsioidea)

Adapid; Adapid group (extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; their descendents probably include the lemurs; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins)

Lemuroidea; suborder Lemuroidea (Lemuridae; Lorisidae; Daubentoniidae; Indriidae; used in some classifications instead of Prosimii; in others considered a subdivision of Prosimii)

Strepsirhini; suborder Strepsirhini (in some classifications either coextensive with the Lemuroidea or comprising the true lemurs)

Omomyid; Omomyid group (extinct tiny nocturnal lower primates that fed on fruit and insects; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; probably gave rise to the tarsiers; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins)

suborder Tarsioidea; Tarsioidea (in some classifications assigned to the suborder Prosimii)

Holonyms ("order Primates" is a member of...):

Eutheria; subclass Eutheria (all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)


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