"chinchilla" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /t͡ʃɪnˈt͡ʃɪlə/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-chinchilla.wav Forms: chinchillas [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪlə Etymology: Borrowed from Spanish chinchilla. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|es|chinchilla}} Spanish chinchilla Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} chinchilla (countable and uncountable, plural chinchillas)
  1. (countable) Either of two small, crepuscular rodents of the genus Chinchilla, native to the Andes, prized for their very soft fur and often kept as pets. Tags: countable Categories (lifeform): Caviomorphs Translations (rodent): chinchilla (Afrikaans), чинчила (činčila) [feminine] (Bulgarian), xinxilla [feminine] (Catalan), 毛絲鼠 (Chinese Mandarin), 毛丝鼠 (máosīshǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), 絨鼠 (Chinese Mandarin), 绒鼠 (róngshǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), 龍貓 (Chinese Mandarin), 龙猫 (lóngmāo) (Chinese Mandarin), 栗鼠 (lìshǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), činčila [feminine] (Czech), chinchilla (Danish), chinchilla [feminine, masculine] (Dutch), ĉinĉilo (Esperanto), ĉinĉilino [feminine] (Esperanto), sinsilla (Finnish), tsintsilla (Finnish), chinchilla [masculine] (French), chinchilla [feminine] (Galician), Chinchilla [feminine] (German), τσιντσιλά (tsintsilá) (Greek), csincsilla (Hungarian), cincillà [masculine] (Italian), チンチラ (chinchira) (Japanese), шиншилла (şinşilla) (Kazakh), cincila (Malay), chinchilla [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), chinchilla [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), szynszyla [feminine] (Polish), chinchila [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), chinchilla (Quechua), șinșilă [feminine] (Romanian), cincila [feminine] (Romanian), шинши́лла (šinšílla) [feminine] (Russian), chinchilla [feminine] (Spanish), chinchilla [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-chinchilla-en-noun-aN3u-UWy Disambiguation of Caviomorphs: 46 2 52 Disambiguation of 'rodent': 82 3 15
  2. (uncountable) The fur of a chinchilla, used for clothing. Tags: uncountable Translations (fur): chinchillabont (Afrikaans), chinchilla [neuter] (Dutch), ĉinĉilaĵo (Esperanto), tsintsilla (Finnish), chinchilla (French), Chinchilla [neuter] (German), csincsilla (Hungarian), cincillà [masculine] (Italian), шинши́лла (šinšílla) [feminine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-chinchilla-en-noun-1X3cUo8b Disambiguation of 'fur': 24 44 32
  3. A variety of Persian cat with white fur and green eyes. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Hides Categories (lifeform): Caviomorphs
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The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: viscacha

Inflected forms

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