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super-primate

super-primate noun: an exemplary primate. Also the alternative form of superprimate.

Noun

super-primate (plural super-primates)

  1. An exemplary primate.
    • I'd read in a book about monkeys that the primate nervous system was slow to be turned on and even slower to switch off. If so, Pia was a super-primate in that she took forever to respond but once aroused could never calm down.2012, Edmund White, Jack Holmes and His Friend, →ISBN, page 254

Also used as

super-primate is also the alternative form of superprimate.

Forms of super-primate

pluralsuper-primates

Questions about super-primate

What does super-primate mean?
Super-primate means an exemplary primate.
What part of speech is super-primate?
Super-primate is a noun.
What is the plural of super-primate?
The plural of super-primate is super-primates.

Words near super-primate in the dictionary

  1. super-note
  2. super-notes
  3. super-obesity
  4. super-photon
  5. super-photons
  6. super-primate
  7. super-primates
  8. super-prime
  9. super-primes
  10. super-pseudorandom
  11. super-pseudorandomness

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