primate

noun

1. 灵长类；灵长目动物
   any animal that belongs to the group of mammals that includes humans, apes and monkeys
2. 大主教；总主教
   an archbishop (= a priest of very high rank in the Christian Church)
   1. the Primate of all England (= the Archbishop of Canterbury)
      全英格兰主教长（坎特伯雷大主教）

The pronunciation /'praɪmeɪt/ is also used for meaning 2. 义项2亦读作 /'praɪmeɪt/。


1. N-COUNT 灵长类（动物）
   A primate is a member of the group of mammals which includes humans, monkeys, and apes.
   1. The woolly spider monkey is the largest primate in the Americas.
      绒毛蛛猴是美洲最大的灵长类动物。
2. N-COUNT 大主教；首席主教
   The Primate of a particular country or region is the most important priest in that country or region.
   1. ...the Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland.
      全爱尔兰天主教大主教

1. The woolly spider monkey is the largest primate in the Americas.
   绒毛蛛猴是美洲最大的灵长类动物。
2. Simons said that when this primate lived, Africa was an island, limiting the competition for survival.
   Simons说这种动物生活的时候非洲还是一个岛屿，没有生存竞争。
3. Today the human brain is three times the size of our primate ancestors.
   如今，人类大脑是我们的祖先灵长类动物大小的三倍。
4. The scientists now think there might be a basic, universal primate call structure.
   现在科学家们认为可能存在一种基本的、普遍的原始发声结构。
5. In this case, the animals were lemurs – a type of primate related to monkeys and apes.
   在此项案例中，被实验的动物是狐猴，这是一种与猴子，猿有关的灵长目动物。
6. Among the hundreds of primate species, some are polygamous ( including our close relatives, chimps and baboons), and others monogamous ( such as gibbons and marmosets).
   在种类数以百计的灵长类动物中，一些是一夫一妻（包括人类的近亲黑猩猩和狒狒），其他一些是一夫多妻（例如长臂猿和狨猴）。
7. Much like primate grooming, a Christmas card requires effort, time and expense.
   与灵长类相互理毛的举动很像，圣诞卡需要花费精力、时间和金钱。
8. We need to screen humans who live in flying range of mosquitoes that also bite primates, to establish whether they are susceptible to the primate parasites.
   我们需要对生活在也叮咬灵长类动物的蚊子的飞行范围之内的人类进行筛查，从而弄清楚他们是否容易感染这种灵长类寄生虫。
9. Until recently no primate, and no tropical mammal, was known to hibernate.
   直到近来没有灵长类动物，没有热带哺乳动物是熟知去冬眠的。
10. The Institute said a robot would accompany the first primate to Mars to feed and look after the ape.
    研究所表示，随行将有一个机器人照顾这个首个登录火星的灵长类动物的饮食起居。
11. The primate queen shares her wildlife inspirations.
    灵长类女王分享了她关于野生生物的灵感。
12. The Aye-aye is the world's largest nocturnal primate, and dwells predominantly in forest canopies.
    狐猴是世界上最大的夜间性活动灵长类动物，主要居住在森林中。
13. The ancient primate habit of vegetarianism.
    灵长类动物源远流长的素食主义习性。
14. The remaining eight specimens did not fit with any known east Asian Pleistocene primate.
    其余8枚标本与任何已知的东亚更新世灵长类都对不上号。
15. Primate models of amnesia: Contribution of specific medial temporal-lobe areas.
    遗忘症的灵长类模式：特定中颞叶区域的贡献。
16. A new study shows that what sets us apart from our closest primate cousin is the accelerated rate at which we acquire new genes and ditch unnecessary ones.
    一项最新的研究表明之所以我们能同最接近我们的灵长类分离开来，是由于我们加速了进化，这使我们获得了新的基因，丢弃了不必要的。
17. Because chimps, our closest relatives, pass the test, while almost all other primate species fail it, scientists began to discuss a "cognitive divide" between the highest primates and the rest.
    因为我们的近亲&黑猩猩，可以通过这项测试，而几乎其他所有的灵长类都不能通过，科学家们开始论述在最高级灵长类和其他的灵长类之间存在着“认知鸿沟”。
18. Reciprocally, the colors of ripened fruits may have coevolved with primate trichromacy, since animals that could recognize and eat the ripe fruit would have assisted plants by spreading their seeds.
    与此相应，成熟果实的颜色也与灵长类动物的三色视一起进化了，因为那些识别并且食用成熟果实的动物通过传播它们的种子而帮助了植物的繁殖。
19. So far, efforts to clone a monkey or another primate with the same techniques have failed.
    迄今为止，用同样方法克隆猴子或其他灵长类动物的尝试均以失败告终。
20. Most likely, a primate similar to the Bonobo was the first to laugh.
    最有可能的，一个灵长类类似侏儒黑猩猩是第一个笑出声来。
21. Among the 10 primate species that inhabit this area are the orangutan and proboscis monkey, which live only on Borneo.
    在此栖息的十种灵长类动物中，红毛猩猩与长鼻猴是婆罗洲特有的。
22. The orangutan is the largest Asian primate and also the largest tree-dwelling mammal.
    红毛猩猩是现存亚洲最大的灵长类动物，也是最大的居住在树上的哺乳类动物。
23. The authors reviewed the establishment method and neurological behavioral assessments method of non-human primate cerebral ischemic model.
    笔者就非人灵长类动物局灶性脑缺血模型制备方法及其神经、行为功能的评价方法作一综述。
24. In the context of moral hazard, these primate instincts are key.
    就道德风险而言，灵长类动物的这些本能是关键。
25. The theory pushes the history of primate evolution back some ten million years.
    这个理论将灵长类动物进化的历史后退了上千万年。
26. Evolution produced this reward system because it increased the survival of members of our social primate species.
    演化产生了这个报偿系统，因它增加了社会成员的存活率。
27. The cynomolgus macaque is one of the most important and widely used non-human primate animal models in basic and applied biomedical research.
    食蟹猕猴是基础医学和应用生物医学研究中最重要和最广泛使用的非人类灵长类动物模型之一。
28. Extinct primate having powerful chewing muscles along with large molars and small incisors; fossils found in Kenya.
    已灭绝的灵长类动物的一个属，有强健的咀嚼肌，臼齿大，门牙小；肯尼亚发现的一种化石。

noun

1. any placental mammal of the order Primates

2. a senior clergyman and dignitary

   Synonym:    archpriesthierarchhigh priestprelate