marmoset

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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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  • * A text in the middle of the day … all it says … "marmoset, marmoset" … this has to stop. —  HERE, THERE AND BACK AGAIN - A Townhall.com user blog
  • Germ cell differentiation in the marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) during fetal and neonatal life closely parallels that in the human. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • We evaluated the marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) as a model by comparing perinatal germ cell differentiation with that in humans. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • I begged to differ and he went away and up came Two Men who consulted with me, I took off my glasses and said take a look at my eyes which made me look like a marmoset, they went Ah and went away and then half an hour later I had a phone call to say they would be dimming the lights. —  Random Jottings of a Book and Opera Lover
  • But what it really shows is that there are plenty of emotionally disturbed, psychologically stunted creeps out there with the conscience of an alley cat and the morals of a marmoset. —  Pajamas Media
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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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