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Marmoset

noun

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

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"Marmoset" Quotes from Famous Books

... distinctly when the trunks were hauled from the cellar and the packing began. The packing—what a lark that had been! He had folded so many coats and trousers, carefully, in their creases, under Macnooder's generous instructions, and, perched on the edge of the banisters like a queer little marmoset, he had watched Wash Simmons throw great armfuls of assorted clothing into the trays and churn them into place with a baseball bat, while the Triumphant Egghead carefully built up his structure with nicety and tenderness. Only ...

— The Boy Scouts Book of Stories • Various

... carries a worn-out, doctored, and flannel-swathed instrument, under the weight of which, being but a youth, or very rarely an adult, he staggers slowly along, with outstretched back and bended knees. On the top of his old organ sits a monkey, or sometimes a marmoset, to whose queer face and queerer tricks, he trusts for compensating the defective quality of his music. He dresses his shivering brute in a red jacket and a cloth cap; and, when he can, he teaches him to grind ...

— Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 430 - Volume 17, New Series, March 27, 1852 • Various

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