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marmoset

DEFINITIONS OF: marmoset

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n small soft-furred South American and Central American monkey with claws instead of nails

Types:
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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
Leontocebus rosalia, silky tamarin
golden South American monkey with long soft hair forming a mane
Leontocebus oedipus, pinche
South American tamarin with a tufted head
Type of:
New World monkey, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian
hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails
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