a small tropical American monkey with a silky coat and a long tail 狨(美洲一种小型长尾猴)
Family Callitrichidae (or Callithricidae): genus Callithrix (three species), and the pygmy marmoset (Cebuella pygmaea) 狨科:狨属(3种),以及侏狨(拉丁名Cebuella pygmaea)
语源
late Middle English (also in the sense 'grotesque figure'): from Old French marmouset 'grotesque image', of unknown ultimate origin