PRIMATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does primate mean? 

• PRIMATE (noun)
  The noun PRIMATE has 2 senses:

1. a senior clergyman and dignitary

2. any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet

  Familiarity information: PRIMATE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRIMATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A senior clergyman and dignitary

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

archpriest; hierarch; high priest; prelate; primate

Hypernyms ("primate" is a kind of...):

priest (a clergyman in Christian churches who has the authority to perform or administer various religious rites; one of the Holy Orders)

Instance hyponyms:

Gloomy Dean; Inge; William Ralph Inge (English prelate noted for his pessimistic sermons and articles (1860-1954))

Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros; Jimenez de Cisneros (prelate who was the confessor of Isabella I and who was later appointed Grand Inquisitor (1436-1517))

Cardinal Newman; John Henry Newman; Newman (English prelate and theologian who (with John Keble and Edward Pusey) founded the Oxford movement; Newman later turned to Roman Catholicism and became a cardinal (1801-1890))

Armand Jean du Plessis; Cardinal Richelieu; Duc de Richelieu; Richelieu (French prelate and statesman; principal minister to Louis XIII (1585-1642))

Desmond Tutu; Tutu (South African prelate and leader of the antiapartheid struggle (born in 1931))

James Usher; James Ussher; Usher; Ussher (Irish prelate who deduced from the Bible that Creation occurred in the year 4004 BC (1581-1656))

William of Wykeham; Wykeham (English prelate and statesman; founded a college at Oxford and Winchester College in Winchester; served as chancellor of England and bishop of Winchester (1324-1404))

Stefan Wyszynski; Wyszynski (Polish prelate who persuaded the Soviet to allow greater religious freedom in Poland (1901-1981))

Derivation:

primateship (the office of primate)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("primate" is a kind of...):

eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "primate"):

simian (an ape or monkey)

tarsier (nocturnal arboreal primate of Indonesia and the Philippines having huge eyes and digits ending in pads to facilitate climbing; the only primate that spurns all plant material as food living entirely on insects and small vertebrates)

lemur (large-eyed arboreal prosimian having foxy faces and long furry tails)

prosimian (primitive primates having large ears and eyes and characterized by nocturnal habits)

monkey (any of various long-tailed primates (excluding the prosimians))

hominid (a primate of the family Hominidae)

hominoid (a primate of the superfamily Hominoidea)

anthropoid (any member of the suborder Anthropoidea including monkeys and apes and hominids)

ape (any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all)

Holonyms ("primate" is a member of...):

order Primates; Primates (an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings)

 Context examples 

Research animal models that do not include mice, rats, etc, but that might include non-human primates, cats, dogs, and others.

(Non-Rodent Model, NCI Thesaurus)

It functions as a growth factor during neonatal brain development, for primate trophoblast formation, and during tumor invasion, angiogenesis, and metastasis.

(Pleiotrophin, NCI Thesaurus)

Humans and other primates rely more on sights and sounds.

(Oxytocin affects facial recognition, NIH)

From just one whiff, these primates can tell which prospective partners have immune genes different from their own.

(Lemurs can smell whether a mate's immune genes are a good match, National Science Foundation)

The Ebola virus can cause severe illness and death in people and other primates.

(Genetics of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak, NIH)

AlphaGal is not normally expressed in humans because alpha(1,3)-galactosyltransferase (Alpha-GT), the enzyme that catalyzes the synthesis of alphaGal epitopes on glycoproteins and glycolipids, is not naturally present in humans and other primates.

(B16alphaGal Melanoma Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Among the results, the researchers identified transcription patterns reflecting differences in cortical development between humans, nonhuman primates, and rodents.

(An Atlas of the Developing Human Brain, NIH)

It has been suggested that humans are uniquely susceptible to Alzheimer's, potentially because of genetic differences from other primates, changes to the human brain during evolution, and longer lifespans.

(New research detects Alzheimer's disease markers in nonhuman primates, National Science Foundation)

Dengue viruses are found in non-human primates and humans and cause dengue fever in humans.

(Dengue Virus, NCI Thesaurus)

The new report describes three separate studies, conducted with non-human primates, rats, and humans, that investigated the potential contribution of the aldosterone/MR pathway to AUD.

(NIH findings link aldosterone with alcohol use disorder, National Institutes of Health)