marmoset

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Then he glared like a mad marmoset, one finger outthrust.

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  1. noun Any of various small clawed monkeys of the genera Callithrix and Cebuella, found in tropical forests of the Americas and having soft dense fur, tufted ears, and long tails.

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  • Then he glared like a mad marmoset, one finger outthrust. —  Watershed
  • There are also tamarins, the difference between a tamarin and a marmoset is the location of their teeth. —  CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2008
  • The pygmy marmoset is an omnivorous, eating insects and other invertebrate, fruit, and plant matter. —  BellaOnline - The Voice of Women
  • You have the pygmy marmoset, which is smaller. —  CNN Transcript Jan 1, 2007
  • Every marmoset, —  Thomas Henry Huxley A Sketch Of His Life And Work
 

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  1. Middle English marmusette, a kind of small monkey, from Old French marmouset, grotesque figurine, alteration (influenced by marmouser, to murmur) of marmotte, marmot; see marmot.

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  1. Formerly also marmozet; from Middle English marmeset, “beeste, zinziphalus, cenozephalus [cynocephalus], mammonetus, marmonetus” (Prompt. Parv., p. 327), marmosette, a kind of ape (mentioned by Mandeville), also mermoyse (Caxton); from Old French marmoset, marmouset, French marmouset, the cock of a cistern or fountain, an antic figure, a puppet, orig. a marble figure as an ornament to a fountain, irreg. with change of orig. r to s, as in chaire (later chaise: see chair, chaise), from Middle Latin marmoretum, a marble figure, from Latin marmor, marble: see marble. The application of marmoset, ‘an antic figure,’ to an ape was prob. assisted by association with F. marmot, = Italian marmotta, a marmoset, a monkey.
 

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