The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Tamarin \Tam"a*rin\, n. [From the native name in Cayenne.]
   (Zool.)
   Any one of several species of small squirrel-like South
   American monkeys of the genus Midas, especially Midas
   ursulus.
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