PRIMATES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Primates mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• 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 ("Primates" is a kind of...):

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "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 ("Primates" is a member of...):

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

 Context examples 

From just one whiff, these primates can tell which prospective partners have immune genes different from their own.

(Lemurs can smell whether a mate's immune genes are a good match, National Science Foundation)

Humans and other primates rely more on sights and sounds.

(Oxytocin affects facial recognition, NIH)

The new report describes three separate studies, conducted with non-human primates, rats, and humans, that investigated the potential contribution of the aldosterone/MR pathway to AUD.

(NIH findings link aldosterone with alcohol use disorder, National Institutes of Health)

Research animal models that do not include mice, rats, etc, but that might include non-human primates, cats, dogs, and others.

(Non-Rodent Model, NCI Thesaurus)

A. actinomycetemcomitans is an oral commensal in humans and Old World primates, and may be a cause of periodontal disease.

(Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans, NCI Thesaurus)

Among the results, the researchers identified transcription patterns reflecting differences in cortical development between humans, nonhuman primates, and rodents.

(An Atlas of the Developing Human Brain, NIH)

Dengue viruses are found in non-human primates and humans and cause dengue fever in humans.

(Dengue Virus, NCI Thesaurus)

Found in gastric mucosa of primates, including human beings and ferrets.

(Helicobacter, NCI Thesaurus)

AlphaGal is not normally expressed in humans because alpha(1,3)-galactosyltransferase (Alpha-GT), the enzyme that catalyzes the synthesis of alphaGal epitopes on glycoproteins and glycolipids, is not naturally present in humans and other primates.

(B16alphaGal Melanoma Vaccine, 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)