Library / English Dictionary

MARMOSET

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small soft-furred South American and Central American monkey with claws instead of nails

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("marmoset" is a kind of...):

New World monkey; platyrrhine; platyrrhinian (hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "marmoset"):

true marmoset (a marmoset)

Cebuella pygmaea; pygmy marmoset (the smallest monkey; of tropical forests of the Amazon)

leoncita; lion marmoset; lion monkey; tamarin (small South American marmoset with silky fur and long nonprehensile tail)

Holonyms ("marmoset" is a member of...):

Callithricidae; family Callithricidae (marmosets)

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