Vi fant 1 definisjoner av order primates på engelsk.
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| order primates - an animal order including lemurs and tarsiers and monkeys and apes and human beings | ||
| Primates, order Primates | ||
| animal order the order of animals | ||
| eutheria, subclass eutheria all mammals except monotremes and marsupials | ||
| 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 | ||