order Primates or·derp·ri·mates uncommon noun 1. an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings SynonymsPrimatesorder Primates Related words Broader terms animal order Parts Eutheria Part of primateAnthropoideaProsimiiAdapidLemuroideaStrepsirhiniOmomyidTarsioidea WordNet 2.1 (Princeton University). WordNet 2.1 Copyright Princeton University. All rights reserved.
