Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of various small, long-tailed, arboreal monkeys of the genera Leontopithecus and Saguinus of Central and South America, closely related to and resembling the marmosets but having a larger body, longer limbs, and lower canines that extend well beyond the incisors.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of the small squirrel-monkeys of South America; a marmoset of the genus Midas, as M. leoninus, the lion tamarin; M. rosalia, the silky tamarin, or marikina; M. ursulus, the negro tamarin, etc.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of small squirrel-like South American monkeys of the genus Midas, especially Midas ursulus.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One of a family of squirrel-sized South American monkeys.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun small South American marmoset with silky fur and long nonprehensile tail

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from Galibi.]

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Examples

  • I have a strong liking for duck $16, so that was a given, here delivered in a bowl ripe with aromatic 5-spice powder, accompanied by charred frisee, chicory, tamarin syrup, and grains of paradise, a pungent spice.

    Jay Weston: Good Evening Vietnam: Red Medicine Is Here Jay Weston 2011

  • I have a strong liking for duck $16, so that was a given, here delivered in a bowl ripe with aromatic 5-spice powder, accompanied by charred frisee, chicory, tamarin syrup, and grains of paradise, a pungent spice.

    Jay Weston: Good Evening Vietnam: Red Medicine Is Here Jay Weston 2011

  • A new monkey, a subspecies of saddleback tamarin, has been described.

    New Saddleback Tamarin 2009

  • “If music based on tamarin calls can alter their behavior, then our ancestors would have been able to use similar components of music to influence one another, and perhaps simple words to name things or to express actions.”

    Play me that monkey music ewillett 2009

  • Sauces range from sweet coconut to eye-fogging special kulambhzu, a tamarin curry.

    Palette for the Palate Demetria Gallegos 2011

  • A new monkey, a subspecies of saddleback tamarin, has been described.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • Sauces range from sweet coconut to eye-fogging special kulambhzu, a tamarin curry.

    Palette for the Palate Demetria Gallegos 2011

  • The cooperative model Dr. Kleiman pioneered with the golden lion tamarin project has since been widely adopted as the most effective way to manage the genetics of rare species.

    Devra G. Kleiman dies at 67; helped create field of conservation biology 2010

  • SIEGEL: You wrote - in your story, you mentioned a complaint from some years ago from 1995, about another experiment with cotton-top tamarin monkeys.

    Harvard Probes Claims Of Scientific Misconduct 2010

  • The bearded saki (Chiropotes satanas), howler monkey (Alouatta belzebul), and red-handed tamarin (Saguinus midas) are all eastern Amazonian primates.

    Tocantins-Araguaia-Maranhão moist forests 2008

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  • Best served with tamarind sauce.

    July 16, 2008