Synonyms for primates
praɪˈmeɪ tizpri·mates

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1. Primates, order Primatesnoun

   an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings

   Synonyms:
   order Primates

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1. List of paraphrases for "primates":

   monkeys

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1. James Hansford:

   We thought that they had historically been much more resilient to human effects, but in fact they've actually been suffering for much longer than we thought, this will hopefully highlight the plight of gibbons and other primates in particular.

2. Jane Goodall:

   I think it's going to be a very lucky year for all of us who care about monkeys, apes, primates and animals in general but particularly the primates, and I hope that it will be a year where we can really draw attention to the wonderful monkeys and apes of China and the rest of Asia because they badly need our help, we really need to step up conservation. And what better time to do it than the Year of the Monkey.

3. Sue Mousley:

   They are still terribly under weight, some of them look a bit dehydrated ... the condition of most of those primates is just simply not acceptable.

4. Danny Longman:

   In much the same as a company with minimal overheads is more able to weather out an economic downturn,( if) a species needs less energy to live, it is more likely to survive periods when there is decreased food availability, in fact, it has recently been demonstrated that the energy expenditure of humans and other primates is remarkably low compared with other placental mammals, and that this may be linked to our long lifespan.

5. Alka Chandna:

   In light of the tremendous physical and psychological harm done to primates used in these NIH experiments and the absence of any gains made as a result, it would seem to be amply clear that these experiments simply cannot be justified.