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primatal

primatal

English

Adjective

primatal (comparative more primatal, superlative most primatal)

  1. (zoology, rare) Pertaining to primates.

Noun

primatal (plural primatals)

  1. (rare) A primate.
    • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 346:
      ‘She was twelve,’ Van added, ‘and I was a male primatal of fourteen and a half, and we just did not care.’