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Definition of Marmosets
1. marmoset [n] - See also: marmoset
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marmosets
Literary usage of Marmosets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Geography of Mammals by William Lutley Sclater, Philip Lutley Sclater (1899)
"SECTION V.—DISTRIBUTION OF THE marmosets Like the Platyrrhine Monkeys the little
marmosets ... The marmosets do not extend so far north as the true Monkeys, ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"The third contract provides for the testing of tumor viruses in newborn marmosets
at Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital in Chicago. This project is directed ..."
3. Central and South America by Augustus Henry Keane, Clements Robert Markham (1901)
"... and the pretty little marmosets, who form a marmosets. sort of link between
the monkey and the squirrel, and of whom as many as fourteen species have ..."
4. The Gentleman's Magazine (1883)
"In many respects the marmosets stand alone amongst the New World forms. ...
The marmosets possess short front limbs when these members are compared with the ..."
5. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville: The Version of the Cotton Manuscript in by John Mandeville, Willem van Ruysbroeck, Odorico (1905)
"And of the Monks that gave their relief to baboons; apes, and marmosets, and to
other beasts FROM that isle, in going by sea toward the south, ..."
6. Natural History of the World: With Anecdotes Illustrating the Nature, Habits edited by Alfred Henry Miles (1895)
"The marmosets. The fifth family of the quadrumana comprises the marmosets, ...
marmosets are one of the few species that breed in confinement. ..."
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