Akademik

Leontocebus

noun

tamarins

• Syn: ↑genus Leontocebus, ↑genus Leontideus

• Hypernyms: ↑mammal genus

• Member Holonyms: ↑Callithricidae, ↑family Callithricidae

• Member Meronyms: ↑tamarin, ↑lion monkey, ↑lion marmoset, ↑leoncita

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\\lēˌäntəˈsēbəs\ noun

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Greek leont-, leōn lion + New Latin Cebus

: a genus of So. American marmosets comprising the tamarins

Useful english dictionary. 2012.