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    TAMARIN

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Small South American marmoset with silky fur and long nonprehensile tailplay

    Synonyms:

    leoncita; lion marmoset; lion monkey; tamarin

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    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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