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Squirrellike monkey
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marmoset
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in 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 ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. small soft-furred South American and Central American monkey with claws instead of nails
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ I could work with everything from marmosets to elephants. ▪ Woolly monkeys and howlers, spider monkeys and capuchins, tamarins and marmosets scramble around one another reaching for the fruit.
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.