1. An animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings
   - order Primates

1. Any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet
   "Humans and chimpanzees are both primates"
    
2. A senior clergyman and dignitary
   "The primate led the procession into the basilica";
   - archpriest, hierarch, high priest, prelate

Type of: animal order, eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal, priest

Part of: Eutheria, subclass Eutheria

Encyclopedia: Primates