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TAMARIN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tamarin mean?
• TAMARIN (noun)
The noun TAMARIN has 1 sense:
1. small South American marmoset with silky fur and long nonprehensile tail
Familiarity information: TAMARIN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small South American marmoset with silky fur and long nonprehensile tail
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
leoncita; lion marmoset; lion monkey; tamarin
Hypernyms ("tamarin" is a kind of...):
marmoset (small soft-furred South American and Central American monkey with claws instead of nails)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "tamarin"):
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)
Holonyms ("tamarin" is a member of...):
genus Leontideus; genus Leontocebus; Leontocebus (tamarins)
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