| / English Dictionary |
ORDER PRIMATES
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings
Synonyms:
order Primates; Primates
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("order Primates" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "order Primates"):
primate (any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet)
Anthropoidea; suborder Anthropoidea (monkeys; apes; hominids)
Prosimii; suborder Prosimii (not used in all classifications; in some classifications considered coextensive with the Lemuroidea; in others includes both Lemuroidea and Tarsioidea)
Adapid; Adapid group (extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; their descendents probably include the lemurs; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins)
Lemuroidea; suborder Lemuroidea (Lemuridae; Lorisidae; Daubentoniidae; Indriidae; used in some classifications instead of Prosimii; in others considered a subdivision of Prosimii)
Strepsirhini; suborder Strepsirhini (in some classifications either coextensive with the Lemuroidea or comprising the true lemurs)
Omomyid; Omomyid group (extinct tiny nocturnal lower primates that fed on fruit and insects; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; probably gave rise to the tarsiers; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins)
suborder Tarsioidea; Tarsioidea (in some classifications assigned to the suborder Prosimii)
Holonyms ("order Primates" is a member of...):
Eutheria; subclass Eutheria (all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
