lion monkey

Questions about lion monkey

What does lion monkey mean?

lion monkey means "small South American marmoset with silky fur and long nonprehensile tail".

What is another word for lion monkey?

Close synonyms include tamarin, lion marmoset, leoncita. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lion monkey a common word?

lion monkey is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.