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. Alka Chandna:

   In light of the tremendous physical and psychological harm done to primates used in these NIH experiments and the absence of any gains made as a result, it would seem to be amply clear that these experiments simply cannot be justified.

2. Ken Campbell:

   Finding primates was a possibility, but they are very rare and very small, so yea, in the end, it was a surprise.

3. Jane Goodall:

   I think it's going to be a very lucky year for all of us who care about monkeys, apes, primates and animals in general but particularly the primates, and I hope that it will be a year where we can really draw attention to the wonderful monkeys and apes of China and the rest of Asia because they badly need our help, we really need to step up conservation. And what better time to do it than the Year of the Monkey.

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. 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.