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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A name of the species of small American marmosets of the genus Midas.
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The small silky apes (Arctopitheca or Hapalidae), which include the tamarin (Midas) and the brush-monkey (Jacchus), have only five molars in each half of the jaw (instead of six), and so seem to be nearer to the eastern apes.
The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel 1876
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