‖ marikina
(mærɪˈkiːnə)
Also 8 marikini, 9 marakina.
[repr. Tupi miriquiná; the form marikina comes (through Buffon) from Claude d'Abbeville Mission en Maregnan 1614.]
A small South American monkey, the silky tamarin, Midas rosalia, having silky golden-yellow hair.
| 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. IV. 237 The fourth is the Marikina; with a mane round the neck, and a bunch of hair at the end of the tail, like a lion. 1854 H. G. Dalton Brit. Guiana (1855) II. 452 The Marakina or Silky Tamarin. 1893 Mivart Types Anim. Life (1894) 32 The marikina or silky marmoset is clothed with fur of a golden yellow. |