primate meaning in Tamil
உயர் விலங்கினம்
/ˈpɹaɪmeɪt/
primate in Tamil: உயர் விலங்கினம், உயர்விலங்கு, முதனி. In English, primate means a mammal of the order Primates, comprising of apes (including humans), monkeys, lemurs, tarsiers, lorisids, and galagos.
Tamil words for primate
- உயர் விலங்கினம், உயர்விலங்கு, முதனி
English meaning of primate
- noun A mammal of the order Primates, comprising of apes (including humans), monkeys, lemurs, tarsiers, lorisids, and galagos.
- noun An anthropoid; ape including human.
- noun In the Catholic Church, a rare title conferred to or claimed by the sees of certain archbishops, or the highest-ranking bishop of a present or historical, usually political circumscription.
- noun In the Orthodox Church, the presiding bishop of an ecclesiastical jurisdiction or region. Usually, the expression primate refers to the first hierarch of an autocephalous or autonomous Orthodox church. Less often, it is used to refer to the ruling bishop of an archdiocese or diocese.
primate in a sentence
- Primates range from lemurs to gorillas.
- The Archbishop of Quebec is the primate of Canada.
primate in other languages
- primate in Hindi
- primate in Marathi
- primate in Urdu
- primate in Bengali
- primate in Telugu
- primate in Malayalam
- primate in Kannada
- primate in Punjabi
- primate in Gujarati
- primate in Arabic
- primate in Malay
- primate in Indonesian
- primate in Persian
- primate in Thai
- primate in Vietnamese
- primate in Myanmar
Questions about primate in Tamil
- What is the meaning of primate in Tamil?
- Primate in Tamil is உயர் விலங்கினம், உயர்விலங்கு, முதனி.
- primate என்பதன் தமிழ் அர்த்தம் என்ன?
- Primate: உயர் விலங்கினம், உயர்விலங்கு, முதனி.
- What does primate mean in English?
- Primate means a mammal of the order Primates, comprising of apes (including humans), monkeys, lemurs, tarsiers, lorisids, and galagos.
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Tamil words from Tamil Wiktionary: primate (page history and authors). English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: primate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Tamil words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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