primate English

Meaning primate meaning

What does primate mean?

Definitions in simple English

primate Noun

— A primate is a family of mammals, with well developed hands and feet, short noses, and large brains.

— A primate is the highest ranking bishop in a country. The Archbishop of Canterbury is the Primate of all England.

primate

— noun (= archpriest) a senior clergyman and dignitary

— noun any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet

Synonyms primate synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as primate?

primate English » English

monkey

ape

prelate

anthropoid

archbishop

simian

high priest

hierarch

archpriest

superior

prime

primary

man

macaque

lemur

leader

head

handed

chief

bishop

apelike

Topics primate topics

What do people use primate to talk about?

Universe, creation Animal Types of animals Mammal

Primate

• What general words refer to primates?
  primate ape monkey anthropoid

Examples primate examples

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Movie subtitles

I'm a primate!

The first lieutenant said that I'll be a primate-apprentice.

They couldn't know that our primate is taking over his business, eh?

Primate Frantisek!

The irony of the primate!

Rise, Thomas Becket, and greet us as the Primate of England.

That the ape evolved from a lower order of primate, possibly man.

A missing link between the unevolved primate and the ape.

It would need only the appointment of a new Primate of the Church in England.

Dept. Of Primate Paleonthology.

You are primate monkey.

I have the only primate in the country that's a dope addict.

I then name thee Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of all England.

TV announcer: MAN OCCUPIES A UNIQUE POSITION IN THE PRIMATE WORLD.

It's the second primate emotion to develop.

Now Judy's expressing the first primate emotion: affection.

Originally, man was just another savanna-living primate like the baboon.

See, here is the primate example.

The meaning of that vessel is as plain as the noses on your ugly little primate faces.

However, test samples injected into the primate subjects causes an immediate calming.

Specialists gathered at the Springfield Primate Institute. for a firsthand examination of the controversial creature.

Who cares what this primate thinks?

If it is a primate, it would have a natural fear of heights.

Move it, primate!

Your husband is sitting on to of a vintage living room table, thinking he is a primate of some sort.

She lives with other chimpanzees on an island at the Institute for Primate Studies in Oklahoma.

Mr. Kramer, he's an innocent primate.

After all, we're both members of the primate family.

Primate family.

George. George Primate.

Ape Primate.

Next on Sick, Sad World: the Malibu Primate Diet.

Slapping hands is the lowest form of male- primate ritual.

That is one smart primate.

I realized some time ago that I'm not separate from nature just because I have a primate brain, an upper brain.

Because underneath the primate brain there's a mammalian brain, and beneath the mammalian brain there's a reptilian brain.

News and current affairs

Nim was born in 1973, in a primate research facility in Oklahoma, and was taken from his mother when he was only ten days old, to be used in a sign-language experiment.

Herbert Terrace, the Columbia University psychologist who was directing the project, decided to end it and sent Nim back to the primate facility in Oklahoma.

Recently it was pronounced extinct - the first documented extinction of a primate since the 1700s.

Japanese primate researchers assumed that each individual animal had a distinct personality, and they did not hesitate to give their subjects names.

Imanishi's influence is now pervasive - all primate scientists have adopted the technique of following individuals over time, and animal culture is the hottest topic in our field.

For most of our evolutionary history, human beings - and our primate ancestors - have lived in small groups, in which violence could be inflicted only in an up-close and personal way, by hitting, pushing, strangling, or using a stick or stone as a club.

But the only European biomedical research that has used great apes recently is the Biomedical Primate Research Centre at Rijswijk, in the Netherlands.