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Definition of Order primates
1. Noun. An animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings.
Exact synonyms: Primates
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Eutheria, Subclass Eutheria
Member holonyms: Primate, Anthropoidea, Suborder Anthropoidea, Prosimii, Suborder Prosimii, Adapid, Adapid Group, Lemuroidea, Suborder Lemuroidea, Strepsirhini, Suborder Strepsirhini, Omomyid, Omomyid Group, Suborder Tarsioidea, Tarsioidea
Generic synonyms: Animal Order
Group relationships: Eutheria, Subclass Eutheria
Member holonyms: Primate, Anthropoidea, Suborder Anthropoidea, Prosimii, Suborder Prosimii, Adapid, Adapid Group, Lemuroidea, Suborder Lemuroidea, Strepsirhini, Suborder Strepsirhini, Omomyid, Omomyid Group, Suborder Tarsioidea, Tarsioidea
Lexicographical Neighbors of Order Primates
Literary usage of Order primates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. California Mammals by Frank Stephens (1906)
"order primates. Inner digit of hand, and in some families the inner digit of
foot, opposable to the other digits; femur and humerus fully exserted; ..."
2. An Introduction to the Osteology of the Mammalia by William Henry Flower (1885)
"CHAPTER X. THE SKULL IN THE order primates, CARNIVORA, INSECTIVORA, ...
Order PRIMATES. Man.—On comparing a longitudinal und vertical section of a young ..."
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