marmoset

mar·mo·set  (märm-st, -zt)

n.

Any of various small clawed monkeys of the genera Callithrix and Cebuella, found in tropical forests of the Americas and having soft dense fur, tufted ears, and long tails.

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[Middle English marmusette, a kind of small monkey, from Old French marmouset, grotesque figurine, alteration (influenced by marmouser, to murmur) of marmotte, marmot; see marmot.]

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marmoset

Noun

a small South American monkey with a long bushy tail [Old French marmouset grotesque figure]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

marmoset - small soft-furred South American and Central American monkey with claws instead of nails New World monkey, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian - hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails Callithricidae, family Callithricidae - marmosets 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