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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE high ▪ Gibbons belong to the higher primates , the Anthropoidea, the monkeys and apes. ▪ Kohak points out that anthropologists use the evidence of worship as a key way to distinguish between humans and higher primates ...
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context zoology English) A mammal of the order ''Primates'', including simians and prosimians. 2 (context informal English) A simian anthropoid; an ape, human or monkey. Etymology 2 n. 1 (context ecclesiastical English) In the Catholic ...
Usage examples of primate.
During two days the king rejected his application: but sensible, either that this affair might be attended with dangerous consequences, or that in his impatience he had groundlessly accused the primate of malversation in his office, which seems really to have been the case, he at last permitted him to take his seat, and was reconciled to him.
The potto is the most interesting of the primates, from the anatomical point of view.
It was the skeleton, very delicately dissected and reassembled, of his potto, a rare and curious little West African creature, nominally one of the primates, though quiet, slow, harmless, and remarkably affectionate.
It was no doubt my tailless potto, one of the most interesting of the primates: but alas short-lived.
Therefore, when the primate and six bishops protested against the Declaration of Indulgence, James sent them to the Tower.
Miller assembled a team of psychologists to study a two-hour videotape of Jennie signing to her trainer, Pamela Prentiss of the Tufts University Center for Primate Research.
General Introduction to the Study of Decapilation Among the Tertiates of Gondwana as Contrasted with the Primates of Eurasia.
It was their intention to have proceeded farther that day, but their progress was interrupted by an affair between their Albanian guard and the primate of the village.
In addition to Ameslan, chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates are being taught a variety of other gestural languages.
They are followed by the Right Honourable Joseph Hutchinson, lord mayor of Dublin, his lordship the lord mayor of Cork, their worships the mayors of Limerick, Galway, Sligo and Waterford, twentyeight Irish representative peers, sirdars, grandees and maharajahs bearing the cloth of estate, the Dublin Metropolitan Fire Brigade, the chapter of the saints of finance in their plutocratic order of precedence, the bishop of Down and Connor, His Eminence Michael cardinal Logue, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, His Grace, the most reverend Dr William Alexander, archbishop of Armagh, primate of all Ireland, the chief rabbi, the presbyterian moderator, the heads of the baptist, anabaptist, methodist and Moravian chapels and the honorary secretary of the society of friends.
Until now, science had known only one higher primate that was nocturnal, the aotus, or night monkey.
With equal haste and violence, the Oriental synod of fifty bishops degraded Cyril and Memnon from their episcopal honors, condemned, in the twelve anathemas, the purest venom of the Apollinarian heresy, and described the Alexandrian primate as a monster, born and educated for the destruction of the church.
The total weight came to around fifty pounds of Biohazard Level 4 liquefying primate.
Metropolitans and Primates, secretly prepared themselves to usurp over their episcopal brethren the same authority which the bishops had so lately assumed above the college of presbyters.
No other primate has that lack of browridge, or that projection from the front of the lower jaw.