noun
Word Origin Middle English: from Old French primat, from Latin primas, primat- ‘of the first rank’, from primus ‘first’.
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Order of mammals
Primates is an order of mammals, which is further divided into the strepsirrhines, which include lemurs, galagos, and lorisids; and the haplorhines, which include tarsiers; and the simians, which include monkeys and apes. Wikipedia