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. • Animal Order

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1. List of paraphrases for "primates":

   monkeys

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1. Tom Plummer:

   While some species of nonhuman primates produce technologies that assist in foraging, humans are uniquely dependent on technology for survival. But the evolutionary origins of this reliance on technology for survival is shrouded in mystery.

2. Tamas Horvath:

   I think this behavior is so simple, so primitive that I think the machinery that drives the mice will be very similar to the machinery that drives humans as well, but, of course, we need to do further studies on those [mechanisms] in humans or other primates, to see whether this is the case there.

3. Tamas Horvath:

   But, of course, we need to do further studies on those [mechanisms] in humans or other primates, to see whether this is the case there.

4. Bobby Collins:

   This is unusual, because you just don't see squirrel monkeys or non-human primates having rheumatoid arthritis. It's not diagnosed very frequently, and this is a young animal. Most of the time, if you're going to see it in animals, it's older animals, where they've got chronic inflammation.

5. H. Allen Smith:

   The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of "Ten Best".