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单词 marmoset
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Definition of marmoset in English:

marmoset

noun ˈmɑːməzɛt
  • A small tropical American monkey with a silky coat and a long tail.

    狨(美洲一种小型长尾猴)

    Family Callitrichidae (or Callithricidae): genus Callithrix (three species), and the pygmy marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Every year more than 10,000 non-human primates, including baboons, owl monkeys rhesus macaques and marmosets are transported by commercial airlines to research labs.
    • Rare uakari monkeys, marmosets and umbrella birds move through the lush canopy foraging for food.
    • Human cold sores, he said, can kill smaller monkeys like marmosets and tamarins.
    • Several birds of paradise flew across from tree to tree, watched on by colourful howler monkeys and marmosets.
    • The male carries, feeds, and grooms the infants - with help from their older siblings - and may even act as a midwife during birth, grooming and licking the newborn marmosets.

Origin

Late Middle English (also in the sense 'grotesque figure'): from Old French marmouset 'grotesque image', of unknown ultimate origin.

Definition of marmoset in US English:

marmoset

noun
  • A small Central and South American monkey with a silky coat and a long nonprehensile tail.

    狨(美洲一种小型长尾猴)

    Family Callitrichidae (or Callithricidae): genus Callithrix (three species), and the pygmy marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Several birds of paradise flew across from tree to tree, watched on by colourful howler monkeys and marmosets.
    • Every year more than 10,000 non-human primates, including baboons, owl monkeys rhesus macaques and marmosets are transported by commercial airlines to research labs.
    • Rare uakari monkeys, marmosets and umbrella birds move through the lush canopy foraging for food.
    • Human cold sores, he said, can kill smaller monkeys like marmosets and tamarins.
    • The male carries, feeds, and grooms the infants - with help from their older siblings - and may even act as a midwife during birth, grooming and licking the newborn marmosets.

Origin

Late Middle English (also in the sense ‘grotesque figure’): from Old French marmouset ‘grotesque image’, of unknown ultimate origin.

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