Primates
Translingual
Etymology
From Latin plural of prīmās (“one of the first, chief, excellent, noble”).
Proper noun
Primates
Hypernyms
- (order): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – subclass; Eutheria/Placentalia – infraclass; Boreoeutheria – magnorder; Euarchontoglires – superorder; Euarchonta – grandorder; Primatomorpha – mirorder
Hyponyms
- (order): Haplorhini, Strepsirrhini – suborders
- Aotidae (douroucoulis), Atelidae (spider monkeys, howler monkeys, woolly monkeys, and muriquis), Callitrichidae (marmosets, tamarins, and lion tamarins), Cebidae (capuchin monkeys and squirrel monkeys), Cercopithecidae (Old World monkeys), Cheirogaleidae (dwarf lemurs, mouse lemurs, giant mouse lemurs, fork-marked lemurs, and hairy-eared dwarf lemurs), Daubentoniidae (aye-ayes), Galagidae (galagos), Hominidae (humans, chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans), Hylobatidae (gibbons), Indriidae (indris, woolly lemurs, and sifakas), Lemuridae (true lemurs), Lepilemuridae (sportive lemurs), Lorisidae (lorises, pottos, and angwantibos), Pitheciidae (sakis, uakaris, titis, and cuxiús), Tarsiidae (tarsiers) – extant families
Translations
taxonomic order, within superorder Euarchontoglires - the primates
References
Primates on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Primates on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category:Primates on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons - Primates in Mammal Species of the World[1] at Bucknell.
- Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, →DOI