Primate vs. Mammal

Primatenoun

(zoology) A mammal of the order Primates, including simians and prosimians.

‘Primates range from lemurs to gorillas.’;

Mammalnoun

An animal of the class Mammalia, characterized by being warm-blooded, having hair and feeding milk to its young.

Primatenoun

(informal) A simian anthropoid; an ape, human or monkey.

Mammalnoun

(paleontology) A vertebrate with three bones in the inner ear and one in the jaw.

Primatenoun

(ecclesiastical) In the Catholic Church, a rare title conferred to or claimed by the sees of certain

Mammalnoun

One of the Mammalia.

Primatenoun

(ecclesiastical) In the Orthodox Church, the presiding bishop of an ecclesiastical jurisdiction or region. Usually, the expression primate refers to the first hierarch of an autocephalous or autonomous Orthodox church. Less often, it is used to refer to the ruling bishop of an archdiocese or diocese.

Mammalnoun

any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk

Primatenoun

(ecclesiastical) In the Anglican Church, an archbishop, or the highest-ranking bishop of an ecclesiastic province.

Mammal

Mammals (from Latin mamma, 'breast') are a group of vertebrate animals constituting the class Mammalia (), and characterized by the presence of mammary glands which in females produce milk for feeding (nursing) their young, a neocortex (a region of the brain), fur or hair, and three middle ear bones. These characteristics distinguish them from reptiles and birds, from which they diverged in the Carboniferous, over 300 million years ago.

Primatenoun

The chief ecclesiastic in a national church; one who presides over other bishops in a province; an archbishop.

Primatenoun

One of the Primates.

Primatenoun

a senior clergyman and dignitary

Primatenoun

any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet

Primate

A primate ( (listen) PRY-mayt) (from Latin primat-, from primus 'prime, first rank') is a eutherian mammal constituting the taxonomic order Primates (). Primates arose 85–55 million years ago first from small terrestrial mammals, which adapted to living in the trees of tropical forests: many primate characteristics represent adaptations to life in this challenging environment, including large brains, visual acuity, color vision, a shoulder girdle allowing a large degree of movement in the shoulder joint, and dextrous hands.