Primates > define

A senior clergyman and dignitary.
- synonyms: archpriest, hierarch, high priest, prelate, primate
Any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet.
- synonyms: primate
An animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings.
- synonyms: order Primates

(n.pl.) The highest order of mammals. It includes man, together with the apes and monkeys. Cf. Pitheci.

by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary