tamarin

[tam-uh-rin, -ran]

noun

any South American marmoset of the genera Saguinus and Leontopithecus (Leontideus), having silky fur and a nonprehensile tail: several species are threatened or endangered.

Origin of tamarin

1735–45; < French < Carib

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Historical Examples of tamarin

The tamarin has neither pouches on the sides of his jaws, nor callosities on his posteriors.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume IX (of 10)
Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
THIS animal, though very small, is still larger than either the ouistiti, or the tamarin.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume IX (of 10)
Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
Tamarin, tam′a-rin, n. a small South American squirrel-monkey.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements)
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British Dictionary definitions for tamarin

tamarin

noun

any of numerous small monkeys of the genera Saguinus (or Leontocebus) and Leontideus, of South and Central American forests; similar to the marmosets: family Callithricidae

Word Origin for tamarin

C18: via French from Galibi

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