Meaning | small soft-furred South American and Central American monkey with claws instead of nails. |
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Member of | Callithricidae, family Callithricidae | marmosets |
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Narrower | pygmy marmoset, Cebuella pygmaea | The smallest monkey |
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tamarin, lion monkey, lion marmoset, leoncita | small South American marmoset with silky fur and long nonprehensile tail |
true marmoset | A marmoset |
Broader | New World monkey, platyrrhine, platyrrhinian | hairy-faced arboreal monkeys having widely separated nostrils and long usually prehensile tails |
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Spanish | callithrix, tití |
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