Marmoset

Definition: Marmoset

Marmoset

Noun

1. Small soft-furred South and Central American monkey with claws instead of nails.

Date "marmoset" was first used: 14th century. (references)

Etymology: Marmoset \Mar"mo*set`\, noun. [French expression marmouset grotesque figure, an ugly little boy, probably from late Latin marmoretum, from the Latin expression marmor marble. Perhaps confused with marmot. See Marble.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: Marmoset

English words defined with "marmoset": Jacchus ♦ leoncita, lion marmoset, lion monkey ♦ Marikina, Marmozet, Mico ♦ Platyrrhini, pygmy marmoset ♦ Sagoin, Sahui, squirrel monkey, superfamily Platyrrhini ♦ tamarin, true marmoset ♦ Wistit. (references)

Specialty definitions using "marmoset": Saguinus ♦ topic drift. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Marmoset

Domain	Title
Books	Biology and behaviour of marmosets : proceedings of the Marmoset Workshop, Göttingen, W-Germany, September 2-5, 1977 (reference) Marvin the Strange Little Marmoset (Papineau, Lucie. Gilda the Giraffe and Friends.) (reference) Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury (reference) The brain of the common marmoset (Callithrix jacchus) : a stereotaxic atlas (reference) The Embryology of the Common Marmoset (Callithrix Jacchus) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Marmoset

"Marmoset" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Marmoset" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	6	143,867

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Marmoset

Expressions using "marmoset": lion marmoset ♦ pygmy marmoset ♦ true marmoset. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Marmoset

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
marmoset	587
marmoset pygmy	48
marmoset monkey	27
marmoset pigmy	11
common marmoset	7
golden lion marmoset	6
marmoset picture	6
marmoset pygmy sale	5
marmoset picture pygmy	3
marmoset pet	3
marmoset monkey picture	2
marmoset monkey for sale	2
breeders marmoset	2
marmoset sale	2
breeder marmoset pygmy	2
marmoset silvery	2
marmoset monkey pygmy	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Marmoset

Language		Translations for "marmoset"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		majmun (ape, jocko, monkey). (various references)

Arabic		‏القشة قرد أميركي. (various references)

Bulgarian		мармозетка. (various references)

Czech		koèkodan. (various references)

Danish		springtamarin (Goeldi's marmoset, Goeldi's tamarin), Goeldi's egernabe (Goeldi's marmoset, Goeldi's tamarin). (various references)

Dutch		witoorpenseelaapje (White-eared marmoset), Goulds tamarin (Goeldi's marmoset, Goeldi's tamarin), Goeldi's marmoset (Goeldi's marmoset, Goeldi's tamarin), gewone marmoset (White-eared marmoset), geelkoppenseelaapje (Buff-headed marmoset). (various references)

French		ouistiti. (various references)

German		pinseläffchen, krallenaffe. (various references)

Greek		σκιουροπιθηκόσ. (various references)

Hungarian		közönséges selyemmajom. (various references)

Italian		bertuccia. (various references)

Manx		marmaseen. (various references)

Pig Latin		armosetmay

Portuguese		marmóreo (marble, marbled, mottle, mottle figure, plum). (various references)

Russian		обезьянка, мартышка. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		marmozet. (various references)

Spanish		tití. (various references)

Swedish		silkesapa. (various references)

Turkish		ipek maymun. (various references)

Ukranian		мавпа (ape, monkey, puggy, simian). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Marmoset

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Callimico goeldii, Callithrix aurita, Callithrix flaviceps, Callitricidae. (various references)
Old French	900-1400	marmouset. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Marmoset

Derivations
	Words beginning with "marmoset": marmosets. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Marmoset" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: marmaset, marmeset, marmouset, marose. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Marmoset

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-m-m-o-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: maestro, marmots, stammer.
	-2 letters: armets, marmot, master, maters, matres, metros, momser, oaters, orates, ramets, ramose, stemma, stream, stroma, tamers.
	-3 letters: ammos, amort, armet, arose, aster, atoms, mares, marse, marts, maser, mater, mates, meats, memos, metro, moats, momes, morae, moras, mores, morse, morts, moste, motes, oater, omers, orate, ramet, rates, ratos, reams, roams, roast.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-m-m-o-r-s-t"
	+1 letter: maelstrom, marmosets, roommates.
	+2 letters: atmometers, dermatomes, hammertoes, maelstroms, manometers, monetarism.
	+3 letters: anemometers, commiserate, immortalise, manometries, matrimonies, memorialist, monetarisms, tautomerism, thermograms.
	+4 letters: anemometries, bombardments, commemorates, commensurate, commentaries, commentators, commiserated, commiserates, compartments, crematoriums, dynamometers, immoralities, immortalised, immortalises, immortalizes, macrogametes, memorialists, meprobamates, metamorphism, metamorphose, microgametes, recommittals, tautomerisms.
	+5 letters: commemorators, commercialist, commiserating, commiseration, commiserative, cytomembranes, dynamometries, immoderations, immortalities, immortalizers, magnetometers, melodramatics, melodramatise, melodramatist, memorizations, metamorphisms, metamorphosed, metamorphoses, metamorphosis, microclimates, momentariness, nonmainstream, normothermias, plethysmogram.
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