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Marmoset   /mˈɑrməzˌɛt/   Listen
Marmoset

noun
1.
Small soft-furred South American and Central American monkey with claws instead of nails.



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lion marmoset
pygmy marmoset
true marmoset


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"Marmoset" Quotes from Famous Books



... he was moved. His dark, short face had changed suddenly, and he stopped eating his fruit. Lady Inley went on crunching the bonbon between her little white teeth with all the enjoyment of a pretty marmoset. ...
— The Spinster - 1905 • Robert Hichens
... stuck in his head was the sight of a small creature like a marmoset, sticking an inquisitive nose into the heart of a sickly-sweet plant which resembled a terrestrial nepenthe. No sooner had the little pink snout touched the green and maroon splotched petals, than the plant writhed, closed its leaves, and swallowed the monkey whole. ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 • Various
... so did the pucker of discontent deepen, and a tiny blue-grey marmoset sprang to the top of the piano, chattering shrilly, when a book swished viciously across the floor, and a diminutive gazelle, standing on reed-pipe legs, blinked its soft eyes, and whisked its apology of a tail when a henna-tipped finger tapped its soft nose over sharply, before ...
— Desert Love • Joan Conquest


Words linked to "Marmoset" :   true marmoset, platyrrhinian, Callithricidae, platyrrhine, Cebuella pygmaea, tamarin, leoncita, lion monkey, New World monkey, family Callithricidae


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