Definitions for tamarins

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tamarins tam·a·rin

Spelling: [tam-uh-rin, -ran]

IPA: /ˈtæm ə rɪn, -ˌræn/

Tamarins is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 419 anagrams from letters in tamarins (aaimnrst).

Definitions for tamarins

noun

1. any South American marmoset of the genera Saguinus and Leontopithecus (Leontideus), having silky fur and a nonprehensile tail: several species are threatened or endangered.

Origin of tamarins

1735-45; French Carib

Examples for tamarins

The tamarin has neither pouches on the sides of his jaws, nor callosities on his posteriors.

THIS animal, though very small, is still larger than either the ouistiti, or the tamarin.

tamarin, tam′a-rin, n. a small South American squirrel-monkey.