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Tamarin

Definition: Tamarin

Tamarin

Noun

1. Small South American marmoset with silky fur and long nonprehensile tail.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Note: Tamarin \Tam"a*rin\, noun. [From the native name in Cayenne.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Tamarin

Synonyms: leoncita (n), lion marmoset (n), lion monkey (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Tamarin

English words defined with "tamarin": Leontocebus oedipusMarikinapinche, Platyrrhinisilky tamarin, superfamily Platyrrhini. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Tamarin" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (tamarin, tamarind).

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Commercial Usage: Tamarin

DomainTitle

Books

  • Fortpflanzungsbiologie und Verhalten bei Cebuella pygmaea und Tamarin tamarin (Primates, Platyrrhina, Callithricidae); mit 22 Tab (reference)

  • Golden Lion Tamarin Monkeys (reference)

  • The Golden Lion Tamarin Comes Home (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Tamarin

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Non-Fiction Usage: Tamarin

SubjectTopicQuote

Travel

Mauritius

Small privately-owned seaside establishments include Villas Caroline, Tamarin, and Verandah. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Tamarin

"Tamarin" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tamarin" is used about 10 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%10111,207

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

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Expression: Tamarin

Expression using "tamarin": silky tamarin. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tamarin

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

golden lion tamarin

55

tamarin

42

monkey tamarin

10

golden lion picture tamarin

8

emperor tamarin

6

lion tamarin

3

hotel tamarin

3

black chested moustached tamarin

3

golden tamarin

3

aruba tamarin

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Tamarin

Language Translations for "tamarin"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Arabic 

  

‏الطمارين قرد صغير. (various references)

   

Danish

  

tofarvet tamarin (Pied tamarin bare-faced tamarin), springtamarin (Goeldi's marmoset, Goeldi's tamarin), paryk-pinché (Cotton-headed tamarin), Goeldi's egernabe (Goeldi's marmoset, Goeldi's tamarin). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

witpoottamarin (White-footed tamarin), pinché-aapje (Cotton-headed tamarin), leeuwaapje (golden tamarin, maned tamarins), Goulds tamarin (Goeldi's marmoset, Goeldi's tamarin), Goeldi's marmoset (Goeldi's marmoset, Goeldi's tamarin), cottontop-tamarin (Cotton-headed tamarin), bonte tamarin (Pied tamarin bare-faced tamarin). (various references)

   

French

  

tamarin (tamarind, tamarind tree). (various references)

   

German

  

Weissfussaeffchen (White-footed tamarin), Mantelaeffchen (Pied tamarin bare-faced tamarin), Loewenaeffchen (golden tamarin, maned tamarins), Lisztaeffchen (Cotton-headed tamarin), Goelditamarin (Goeldi's marmoset, Goeldi's tamarin). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

saguinus oedipus (Cotton-headed tamarin), λεοντοπίθηκος (golden tamarin, maned tamarins), ταμαρίνος-μίδας του "καίλντι (Goeldi's marmoset, Goeldi's tamarin), ταμαρίνος ο λευκόπους (White-footed tamarin), δίχρωμος ταμαρίνος (Pied tamarin bare-faced tamarin). (various references)

   

Italian

  

Tamarino di Goeldi (Goeldi's marmoset, Goeldi's tamarin), Saguinus leucopus (White-footed tamarin), Leontocebo Scimmieleonine (golden tamarin, maned tamarins), callimico di Goeldi (Goeldi's marmoset, Goeldi's tamarin). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

amarintay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

ti-ti leão (golden tamarin, maned tamarins), tamarim de Goeldi (Goeldi's marmoset, Goeldi's tamarin), saguí de patas brancas (White-footed tamarin), saguí de face branca (Cotton-headed tamarin), saguí bicolor (Pied tamarin bare-faced tamarin). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

pembe maymun. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Tamarin

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Callimico goeldii, Callitricidae, Leontideus, Saguinus bicolor, Saguinus leucopus, Saguinus oedipus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations: Tamarin

Derivations

Words beginning with "tamarin": tamarind, tamarinds, tamarins. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Tamarin"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "tamarin" (pronounced ta"merun)
3-er u ncephalosporin, intrauterine, mandarin, margarine, nitroglycerin, nitroglycerine, saccharin, uterine, veteran.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Tamarin

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: martian.

Words within the letters "a-a-i-m-n-r-t"

-1 letter: airman, amrita, antiar, mantra, marina, martin, tamari.

-2 letters: amain, amnia, anima, antra, atman, atria, inarm, manat, mania, manta, maria, matin, naira, ratan, riant, riata, tiara, train.

-3 letters: airn, airt, amia, amin, amir, anta, anti, aria, atma, maar, main, mair, mana, mart, mina, mint, raia, rain, rami, rani, rant, tain, tarn, tram, trim.

-4 letters: aim, ain, air, ait, ama, ami, ana, ani, ant, arm, art, man, mar, mat, mir, nam, nim, nit, ram, ran, rat, ria, rim, rin, tam, tan, tar, tin.

-5 letters: aa, ai, am, an, ar, at, in, it, ma, mi, na, ta, ti.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-i-m-n-r-t"
 

+1 letter: animater, animator, marinate, martians, tamarind, tamarins, trainman, trimaran.

 

+2 letters: animaters, animators, inamorata, laminator, marginate, marinated, marinates, ptarmigan, reanimate, samaritan, tamarinds, tarantism, trimarans.

 

+3 letters: abominator, admiration, alimentary, animadvert, antimarket, antimatter, antiracism, armaturing, emarginate, inamoratas, intramural, intravitam, laminators, macerating, maceration, machinator, mainstream, maintainer, marginated, marginates, marinating, marination, martingale, maturating, maturation, morganatic, natatorium, naturalism, nonmarital, pancratium, parliament, ptarmigans, ramparting, reanimated, reanimates, samaritans, sanatorium, sanitarium, tarantisms, undramatic.

 

+4 letters: abnormality, abominators, admirations, adumbrating, adumbration, affirmation, amaranthine, animadverts, antimalaria, antimatters, antiracisms, antirealism, antitumoral, arbitrament, aromatizing, arraignment, calumniator, carcinomata, carminative, demarcating, demarcation, disarmament, dramatising, dramatizing, emancipator, embarkation, enamoration, filamentary, firmamental, impartation, infantryman, intradermal, lacrimation, macerations, machinators, maidservant, mainstreams, maintainers, maltreating, mandarinate, mandataries, mandatories, mandatorily, manipulator, marathoning, marginality, marginating, margination, marinations, martingales, maternalism, matriculant, matrilineal, matrimonial, maturations, migrational, natatoriums, naturalisms, nonaromatic, nondramatic, nonmaterial, pancratiums, parliaments, paternalism, patrimonial, planetarium, rationalism, reanimating, reanimation, reclamation, sanatoriums, sanitariums, seminatural, transmarine, transmittal, ultramarine.

 

+5 letters: administrant, administrate, adumbrations, aeromagnetic, affirmations, ameliorating, amelioration, amortization, anagrammatic, animadverted, antimacassar, antimalarial, antimilitary, antirealisms, antiromantic, appraisement, arbitraments, armamentaria, arraignments, artilleryman, astronomical, cabinetmaker, calumniators, camphorating, carminatives, charlatanism, contaminator, demarcations, disarmaments, emancipators, emargination, embarkations, enamorations, fraternalism, heartwarming, humanitarian, impartations, inflammatory, interlaminar, intracompany, intramurally, lacrimations, maidservants, mainstreamed, majoritarian, malformation, malversation, mandarinates, manipulators, manipulatory, marathonings, marginations, masturbating, masturbation, materialness, maternalisms, matriculants, maturational, microanalyst, microanatomy, mistranslate, monodramatic, moralization, panchromatic, paramagnetic, paronomastic, paternalisms, planetariums, premalignant, proclamation, prothalamion, racemization, ramification, rationalisms, reanimations, reclamations, romanization, romantically, sectarianism, trademarking, transaminase, transmigrate, transmittals, transuranium, traumatising, traumatizing, ultramarines, undramatized, unitarianism, watermanship, watermarking.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Tamarin


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 61 6D 61 72 69 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01100001 01101101 01100001 01110010 01101001 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#97 &#109 &#97 &#114 &#105 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0061 006D 0061 0072 0069 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

54677967847580

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Slideshow
6. Quotations: Non-fiction
7. Usage Frequency
8. Expressions
9. Expressions: Internet
10. Translations: Modern
11. Translations: Ancient
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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