The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word TAMARIN
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More clues leading to the result TAMARIN
- Monkey, yellow-brown, seen around first day of month
- Tropical tree deserted by its last monkey
- American native at home on county boundary
- Primate can put round a Gospel
- Monkey chewed end off fruit
- Monkey departs from tree
- Monkey at home alongside river
- Monkey departs, leaving tree
- Primate and a member of the flock reflected, breaking bread
- South American monkey in a train angrily bites man
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The straight part
We know that "Primate" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case primate = tamarin.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does TAMARIN mean?
TAMARIN noun- One of a family of squirrel-sized South American monkeys.