tamarin

Other forms of tamarin

plural

tamarins·

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 tamarin

What does tamarin mean?

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

How many syllables are in tamarin?

tamarin has 3 syllables: tam-a-rin. The stress falls on "tam". In IPA it is /ˈtæmɚən/.

What is another word for tamarin?

Close synonyms include lion monkey, 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 tamarin a common word?

tamarin 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.