primate

IPA: prˈaɪmeɪt

(zoology) A mammal of the order Primates, including simians and prosimians.
(informal) A simian anthropoid; an ape, human or monkey.
(ecclesiastical) In the Catholic Church, a rare title conferred to or claimed by the sees of certain archbishops, or the highest-ranking bishop of a present or historical, usually political circumscription.
(ecclesiastical) In the Orthodox Church, the presiding bishop of an ecclesiastical jurisdiction or region. Usually, the expression primate refers to the first hierarch of an autocephalous or autonomous Orthodox church. Less often, it is used to refer to the ruling bishop of an archdiocese or diocese.
(ecclesiastical) In the Anglican Church, an archbishop, or the highest-ranking bishop of an ecclesiastic province.

Examples of "primate" in Sentences

Coalition building is a good strategy for a subordinate male in primate societies …
Yes, the gentle Bonobo, that bisexual primate is to be touted as a new social engineering model.
(NOD/SCID) mouse-repopulating cells (SRCs), and long-term primate hematopoietic repopulating cells.
These relationships, in primate societies, are maintained by grooming (which is to say, by exhibitions of care).
Until now neuroscientists have assumed that in primate brains simple movements are "hard-wired" while complex behaviors are learned.
The term primate was at once substituted for that of metropolitan, since the archbishops of Canterbury did not claim the right to exercise an administrative authority within the see of
Furthermore, he says, the chief networkers in primate species have been female because they are more likely to remain in the group in which they are born and give it coherence over time.
An ecologist, she had come to Africa to participate in primate research and to heal the deep wounds of her marriage to a brilliant English mathematician; but she soon found herself plunged into another crisis, one that threatened not only her career but also her life.