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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



... They've never had colds—and they practically live by their noses. Other animals—all dependent on their senses of smell for survival—and none of them ever have anything even vaguely reminiscent of a common cold. The multicentric virus hits primates only—and it reaches its fullest parasitic powers ...
— The Coffin Cure • Alan Edward Nourse
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... monkeys, considered as equivalent to the order Primates, or the Quadrumana of naturalists, we have to include another sub-type, that of the Lemurs. These animals are of a lower grade than the true monkeys, from which they differ in so many points of structure that they are considered to form a distinct sub-order, ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 • Various
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... keep, a church shall rise Like Incorruption clothing the Corrupt On the resurrection morn! Strong House of God, To Him exalt thy walls, and nothing doubt, For lo! from thee like lions from their lair Abroad shall pace the Primates of this land:— They shall not lick the hand that gives and smites, Doglike, nor snakelike on their bellies creep In indirectness base. They shall not fear The people's madness, nor the rage of kings Reddening the temple's ...
— Legends of the Saxon Saints • Aubrey de Vere
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Words linked to "Primates" :   Lemuroidea, animal order, primate, Adapid group, suborder Prosimii, suborder Strepsirhini, suborder Anthropoidea, Adapid, suborder Tarsioidea, Anthropoidea, Omomyid, Eutheria, order Primates, suborder Lemuroidea


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