order primates

Noun
  1. An animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings (synset 102472219)
    is a type of: animal order - the order of animals
    member holonym:
    • primate - any placental mammal of the order Primates; has good eyesight and flexible hands and feet
    • anthropoidea, suborder anthropoidea - monkeys; apes; hominids
    • prosimii, suborder prosimii - not used in all classifications; in some classifications considered coextensive with the Lemuroidea; in others includes both Lemuroidea and Tarsioidea
    • adapid, adapid group - extinct small mostly diurnal lower primates that fed on leaves and fruit; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; their descendents probably include the lemurs; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins
    • lemuroidea, suborder lemuroidea - Lemuridae; Lorisidae; Daubentoniidae; Indriidae; used in some classifications instead of Prosimii; in others considered a subdivision of Prosimii
    • strepsirhini, suborder strepsirhini - in some classifications either coextensive with the Lemuroidea or comprising the true lemurs
    • omomyid, omomyid group - extinct tiny nocturnal lower primates that fed on fruit and insects; abundant in North America and Europe 30 to 50 million years ago; probably gave rise to the tarsiers; some authorities consider them ancestral to anthropoids but others consider them only cousins
    • suborder tarsioidea, tarsioidea - in some classifications assigned to the suborder Prosimii
    belongs to: eutheria, subclass eutheria - all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
    same as: primates

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