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单词 tamarin
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tamarin

/ˈtam(ə)rɪn /
noun
A small forest-dwelling South American monkey of the marmoset family, typically brightly coloured and with tufts and crests of hair around the face and neck.
  • Genera Saguinus and Leontopithecus, family Callitrichidae (or Callithricidae): several species.
In marmosets and tamarins - the little South American monkeys that are, besides us, the only full-fledged cooperative breeders among primates - a female has to be ready to be a helper this year and a mother the next....
  • Human cold sores, he said, can kill smaller monkeys like marmosets and tamarins.
  • Among tamarins and spider monkeys, all males are dichromats - they can't perceive reds or greens.

Origin

Late 18th century: from French, from Galibi.

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