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say it: MAHR-muh-zet
marmoset is a noun meaning "small soft-furred South American and Central American monkey with claws instead of nails". It is pronounced /ˈmɑɹməˌzɛt/ — MAHR-muh-zet. It carries one recorded sense.
small soft-furred South American and Central American monkey with claws instead of nails
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for marmoset come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.