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Noun primate has 2 senses
  1. archpriest, hierarch, high priest, prelate, primate - a senior clergyman and dignitary
    --1 is a kind of animal order; priest; animal order; priest
    --1 is a member of
     Eutheria, subclass Eutheria; 1 of 2 senses of primate ; Primates, order Primates; Eutheria, subclass Eutheria; 1 of 2 senses of primate
    --1 has members:
     primate; Anthropoidea, suborder Anthropoidea; Prosimii, suborder Prosimii; Adapid, Adapid group; Lemuroidea, suborder Lemuroidea; Strepsirhini, suborder Strepsirhini; Omomyid, Omomyid group; Tarsioidea, suborder Tarsioidea
     --1 has particulars:
     Inge, William Ralph Inge, the Gloomy Dean; Jimenez de Cisneros, Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros; Newman, John Henry Newman, Cardinal Newman; Richelieu, Duc de Richelieu, Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu; Tutu, Desmond Tutu; Ussher, James Ussher, Usher, James Usher; Wykeham, William of Wykeham; Wyszynski, Stefan Wyszynski
  2. primate - any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet
    --2 is a kind of     placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal; placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal
    --2 is a member of
     Primates, order Primates; primate; Primates, order Primates
     --2 has particulars:
     simian; ape; anthropoid; hominoid; hominid; monkey; prosimian; lemur; tarsier
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