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Definition of marmoset in English: marmosetnoun ˈmɑːməzɛt A small tropical American monkey with a silky coat and a long tail. Family Callitrichidae (or Callithricidae): genus Callithrix (three species), and the pygmy marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea) Example sentencesExamples - Every year more than 10,000 non-human primates, including baboons, owl monkeys rhesus macaques and marmosets are transported by commercial airlines to research labs.
- Rare uakari monkeys, marmosets and umbrella birds move through the lush canopy foraging for food.
- Human cold sores, he said, can kill smaller monkeys like marmosets and tamarins.
- Several birds of paradise flew across from tree to tree, watched on by colourful howler monkeys and marmosets.
- The male carries, feeds, and grooms the infants - with help from their older siblings - and may even act as a midwife during birth, grooming and licking the newborn marmosets.
Origin Late Middle English (also in the sense 'grotesque figure'): from Old French marmouset 'grotesque image', of unknown ultimate origin. Definition of marmoset in US English: marmosetnoun A small Central and South American monkey with a silky coat and a long nonprehensile tail. Family Callitrichidae (or Callithricidae): genus Callithrix (three species), and the pygmy marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea) Example sentencesExamples - Several birds of paradise flew across from tree to tree, watched on by colourful howler monkeys and marmosets.
- Every year more than 10,000 non-human primates, including baboons, owl monkeys rhesus macaques and marmosets are transported by commercial airlines to research labs.
- Rare uakari monkeys, marmosets and umbrella birds move through the lush canopy foraging for food.
- Human cold sores, he said, can kill smaller monkeys like marmosets and tamarins.
- The male carries, feeds, and grooms the infants - with help from their older siblings - and may even act as a midwife during birth, grooming and licking the newborn marmosets.
Origin Late Middle English (also in the sense ‘grotesque figure’): from Old French marmouset ‘grotesque image’, of unknown ultimate origin. |