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primate
  1. (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.
  2. (ecclesiastical) In the Anglican Church, an archbishop, or the highest-ranking bishop of an ecclesiastic province.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The chimpanzee is a highly intelligent primate.”
      “In short, grasping food objects and small-diameter supports were probably key factors in the development of primate manual prehension.”
      “The three analyses showed the same dichotomy with the prosimian sequences always separated from all the other primate sequences.”
primate
  1. (zoology) A mammal of the order Primates, including simians and prosimians.
  2. (informal) A simian anthropoid; an ape, human or monkey.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The chimpanzee is a highly intelligent primate.”
      “In short, grasping food objects and small-diameter supports were probably key factors in the development of primate manual prehension.”
      “The three analyses showed the same dichotomy with the prosimian sequences always separated from all the other primate sequences.”
primatology
  1. (zoology) The branch of zoology relating to the study of primates.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Under the guiding logic of these complex dualisms, western primatology is simian orientalism.”
      “These are just a few examples of the rich additions that behavioral primatology can make to understanding the human condition.”
      “Cultural primatology, the study of how socially learned behavior varies between different communities of the same nonhuman primate species, is a hot topic.”
primatologist
  1. A scientist whose speciality is primatology
  2. Examples:
    1. “Speakers include TEEB study leader Pavan Sukhdev and primatologist Emmanuelle Grundmann.”
      “With the help of a primatologist, Caesar, played by Serkis, grows up to be an ape with genius-level intelligence.”
      “There he ran into the author, an American primatologist who had been studying baboon behaviour for 12 years.”
primateship
  1. The office, dignity, or position of a primate (church officer).
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The primateship was an esteemed role within the church hierarchy, filled by a wise and respected leader.”
primatal
  1. (rare) A primate.
primatologists
  1. plural of primatologist
  2. Examples:
    1. “It's well known among primatologists that the number of males within a group of, say, baboons, chimpanzees, or lemurs is related to the number of females.”
      “But despite being the subject of numerous now-obscure nineteenth-century reports, this small, nocturnal, gremlin-like prosimian long went unexamined by primatologists.”
primateships
primatologies
  1. plural of primatology
primatals
  1. plural of primatal
primates
  1. plural of primate
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It urged a ban on any use of human cells in chimps and other primates, however, as well as the introduction of animal cells into human embryos.”
      “Large primates, such as the woolly monkey, are often hunted by rural villagers when other sources of protein are scarce.”
      “The repeated appearance of higher grades was true long before primates, before mammals, or any vertebrates.”
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