marmoset

/ˈmɑrməsɛt/

/ˈmɑməsɛt/

Other forms: marmosets

Definitions of marmoset

1. noun

   a small, soft-furred South American and Central American monkey with claws instead of nails
   types:

   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