A vertebrate order that includes humans, apes, monkeys and lemurs; marked by similar limb and tooth structure and superior thinking ability.

Mammals having large brains, eyes that look forward, and usually opposable thumbs-thumbs they can bend to help pick up objects. Primates include humans, apes, and monkeys.

an mammal in the same group with humans, monkeys, and apes.

A member of the mammalian order Primates. This includes lemurs, monkeys, apes and humans. Species share some characteristics such as hands with opposable thumbs (the tip of the thumb can touch the tips of the fingers across the palm), binocular vision (two images - one from each eye - overlap slightly to give a three dimensional picture of what the animal sees) and slow birth and maturation rates (usually giving birth to a small number of young that take a proportionally long time to reach adulthood). The group seems to have evolved from small agile insect-eating mammals that lived in trees.

The head of a church, especially a State church supported by involuntary contributions. The Primate of England is the Archbishop of Canterbury, an amiable old gentleman, who occupies Lambeth Palace when living and Westminster Abbey when dead. He is commonly dead.

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

The Bishop with pastoral and administrative responsibility and authority for a group of dioceses that constitute a Church. A primate is sometimes called a metropolitan. The Presiding Bishop in the case of the Episcopal Church, and the Archbishop of Canterbury in the case of the Church of England and the Anglican Communion.

The presiding bishop of the Anglican Church of Canada. The Primate is the senior metropolitan of the Church, the chairperson of the House of Bishops, and the president of General Synod; with the title Archbishop.