🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

霊長類

Pronunciation / Transliteration: reichōrui

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
primate/ˈpraɪ.meɪt/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #2500 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"チンパンジーは非常に知的な霊長類です。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    A mammal of an order that includes the lemurs, monkeys, apes, and human beings.

    "Chimpanzees and humans share a common ancestor that was also a primate."

Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Late 16th century (denoting an archbishop): from Old French primat or Latin primas, primat-, from primus 'first'. The biological sense dates from the early 19th century.

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