primates
IPA: prˈaɪmeɪts
Root Word: Primates
noun
- a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of primatology, and an official journal of the Japan Monkey Center at Kyoto University.
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Examples of "primates" in Sentences
- Primatology is the study of primates.
- The bonobo is the gentlest of primates.
- He is an expert in primates of the miocene.
- Gorillas are the largest of the living primates.
- A primate is any member of the biologic order Primates.
- Humans are primates of the class Mammalia of the Kingdom of Animalia.
- A monkey is any member of two of the three groupings of simian primates.
- The human species is also a placental mammal, a member of the order Primates.