Crossword clues for marmoset
marmoset
- Certain small monkey
- Squirrel's kin
- Silky monkey
- Monkey that resembles a squirrel
- Tropical monkey
- Tree-dwelling tropical monkey
- Tamarin relative
- Soft-furred monkey
- Small monkey — Rome's mat (anag)
- Indianapolis indie band named after a New World monkey
- Certain New World monkey
- Arms me to (anag) — animal
- Squirrellike monkey
- New World monkey
- Small soft-furred South and Central American monkey with claws instead of nails
- Long-tailed monkey
- Monkey’s limb doctor holds to fix
- Stammer badly describing love for Primate
- Small monkey of the Americas
- Rodent bites small European monkey
- Head of menagerie, maestro trained monkey
- Trade centre stocking some knocked-off 24
- Small South American monkey
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marmoset \Mar"mo*set`\ (m[aum]r"m[-o]*z[e^]t`; 277), n. [F. marmouset a grotesque figure, an ugly little boy, prob. fr. LL. marmoretum, fr. L. marmor marble. Perhaps confused with marmot. See Marble.] (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of small South American monkeys of the genera Hapale and Midas, family Hapalid[ae]. They have long soft fur, and a hairy, nonprehensile tail. They are often kept as pets. Called also squirrel monkey.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"small monkey," late 14c., from Old French marmoset "grotesque figurine; fool, jester" (late 13c.), perhaps a variant of marmote "long-tailed monkey, ape," then, as a term of endearment, "little child;" said to be from marmonner, marmotter "to mutter, mumble," probably of imitative origin. Some French authorities suggest a derivation of marmoset from marmor "marble," as if "little marble figurine."
Wiktionary
n. 1 A small monkey, now specifically a Central and South American monkey of the genera ''Callithrix'', (taxlink Cebuella genus noshow=1), (taxlink Callibella genus noshow=1), or (taxlink Mico genus noshow=1), with claws instead of nails, and a rather primitive layout. (from 14th c.) 2 (context obsolete English) A hideous figure; a grotesque. (15th-19th c.) 3 (context pejorative now rare English) An unappealing or foolish man. (from 16th c.)
WordNet
n. small soft-furred South American and Central American monkey with claws instead of nails
Wikipedia
The marmosets are 22 New World monkey species of the genera Callithrix, Cebuella, Callibella, and Mico. All four genera are part of the biological family Callitrichidae. The term marmoset is also used in reference to the Goeldi's marmoset, Callimico goeldii, which is closely related.
Most marmosets are about long. Relative to other monkeys, they show some apparently primitive features: they have claws rather than nails, and tactile hairs on their wrists. They lack wisdom teeth, and their brain layout seems to be relatively primitive. Their body temperature is unusually variable, changing by up to 4 °C (7 °F) in a day. Marmosets are native to South America and have been found in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru. They have also been spotted in Central America and Mexico. They are also raised in captivity as pets.
According to recent research, marmosets exhibit germline chimerism, which is not known to occur in nature in any primates other than callitrichids. Ninety-five percent of marmoset fraternal twins trade blood through chorionic fusions, making them hematopoietic chimeras.
Marmoset is an indie rock band based in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, that was formed on Jan. 1, 1995. The band's members are Jorma Whittaker (bass and vocals), Dave Jablonski (guitar and vocals), and Jason Cavan (drums). Frequent contributor and former full-time member LonPaul Ellrich died in 2008. The vinyl repressing of the album Record in Red was dedicated to his memory.
Marmoset has multiple releases on the Secretly Canadian label. In 2009 Marmoset signed to Joyful Noise Recordings.
Marmosets are New World monkeys in the genus Callithrix.
Marmoset may also refer to:
- Marmoset rat, a rodent
- Delacour's marmoset rat, a rodent
- Marmousets, counselors to Charles VI of France
- Marmoset (band), an indie rock band from Indianapolis, USA
- Marmozets, a math rock band from Bingley, UK
Usage examples of "marmoset".
The thought struck him that young Brownfield probably resembled nothing so much as he did a slightly boiled marmoset.
The Cockbill Street Roaring Lads had a treaty with Shamlegger Street, thus allowing them to ignore that flank while they concentrated on stopping the territorial aggression of the Pigsty Hill Dead Marmoset Gang.
Calpumia came to live with me there, and would you believe it, the dear girl still had the money which I had given her instead of necklaces and marmosets and silk dresses, and offered to lend it to me.
In recent years, customs inspectors in Florida have arrested a woman trying to smuggle in a rare woolly monkey by hiding it in her overcoat, and a man wearing a vest with special pockets to carry his Australian-palm-cockatoo eggs, and a man carrying a toy Teddy bear stuffed with live tortoises, and a man with a live boa constrictor under his shirt, and a man with pygmy marmosets in his fanny pack.
Marmosets and pacas scampered over the boulders and talus in search of nuts and berries.
He quickly released the marmoset from its fume cupboard and pushed the bushy-tailed mammal through one of the windows.
When in the canoe, the marmoset played with Grampus, as the dog was named.
Martin was lying on his back, as was his wont in such easy circumstances, amusing himself with Marmoset, and Barney was reclining in the bow, talking solemnly to Grampus, when suddenly the wind ceased and it became dead calm.
They embarked once more in their old canoe with their goods and chattels, not forgetting Marmoset and Grampus, whose friendship during their inactive life had become more close than ever.
Marmoset was fonder of riding than walking so that Grampus had enough to do but he did not put himself much about.
Well, if he was all of a suddent to turn into Marmoset an' swaller himself, an' then jump down the throat of Grampus, and the whole consarn, canoe and all, to disappear, I don't think that I would be much surprised.
Just as they were departing, Marmoset, observing that she was about to be left behind, uttered a frantic cry, which brought Grampus gambolling to her side.
Those thirty-two species include vervets, marmosets, and spider monkeys, as well as one ape, the orangutan.