Definitions for marmoset

marmoset mar·mo·set

Spelling: [mahr-muh-zet, -set]
IPA: /ˈmɑr məˌzɛt, -ˌsɛt/

Marmoset is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 390 anagrams from letters in marmoset (aemmorst).

Definitions for marmoset

noun

  1. any of several small, squirrellike, South and Central American monkeys of the genera Callithrix, Leontocebus, etc., having soft fur and a long, nonprehensile tail: some species are endangered.

Origin of marmoset

1350-1400; Middle English marmusette a kind of monkey, an idol Old French marmouset, apparently equivalent to marmos(er) to murmur (marm- (see marmot) + -oser v. su

Examples for marmoset

Rick petted the marmoset, then put him back on his file-safe perch.

But her head moved, from the portrait to the Flicker, from the Flicker to the marmoset.

The boy and the marmoset had a chance after all, if the heat didn't get them.

The marmoset whom nature had given, only of all, to love the man!

Down the passage came leaping and gambolling the Doctor's marmoset.

The marmoset was with them, perched on top of the file safe.

The crisis came at luncheon and indirectly through the marmoset.

Were there no means whereby I could induce the marmoset to approach me?

Down the passage came leaping and gamboling the doctor's marmoset.

The marmoset was to substitute, then, for human occupants of the big rocket.

Word Value for marmoset
Scrable

12

Words with friends

14

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