marmoset

1. 1.

   small soft-furred South American and Central American monkey with claws instead of nails

   BroaderNew World monkey

   Narrowertrue marmosetpygmy marmosettamarin

   Part ofCallithricidae

Other forms of marmoset

plural

marmosets·

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.

Questions about marmoset

What does marmoset mean?

marmoset means "small soft-furred South American and Central American monkey with claws instead of nails".

How many syllables are in marmoset?

marmoset has 3 syllables: mar-mo-set. The stress falls on "mar". In IPA it is /ˈmɑɹməˌzɛt/.

Is marmoset a common word?

marmoset is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with marmoset?

2 words rhyme with marmoset. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.