Definition of "marmosets" [marmosets]

• Plural form of marmoset. (noun)

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• "While the number of experiments on new world primates, such as marmosets, increased by around 250, those carried out on old world primates, such as macaques, fell by 590."
• "Other mammals that are found only in this ecoregion, or in few other places, include an armadillo Dasypus septemcinctus, bats (Platyrrhinus recifinus, Natalus stramineus, and Molossops greenhalli), primates such as marmosets (Callithrix argentatado), tamarins (Saguinus midas), night monkeys (Aotus infulatus), and savanna foxes (Cerdocyon thous)."
• "While they work the city streets, the blue macaws have their own problems including being ambushed by a tribe of marmosets trained in the Brazilian martial art of capoeria among other adventures."