"chinchilla" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /t͡ʃɪnˈt͡ʃɪlə/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-chinchilla.wav [Southern-England] 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 (topical): Hides 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 Hides: 52 6 41 Disambiguation of Caviomorphs: 51 3 46 Categories (other): English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 53 3 43 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 (lifeform): Caviomorphs
    Sense id: en-chinchilla-en-noun-SWW4235s Disambiguation of Caviomorphs: 51 3 46 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 39 2 59
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: viscacha
Derived forms: Bolivian chinchilla, Chilean chinchilla, chinchilla rat, chinchilla wattle, coastal chinchilla, common chinchilla, long-tailed chinchilla (taxonomic: Chinchilla lanigera), Peruvian chinchilla, rat chinchilla, royal chinchilla, short-tailed chinchilla (alt: syn. Chinchilla brevicaudata) (taxonomic: Chinchilla chinchilla)

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          "ref": "2008, Jeff Wyatt, “Chapter 17: Anesthesia and Analgesia in Other Mammals”, in Richard E. Fish, Marilyn J. Brown, Peggy J. Danneman, Alicia Z. Karas, editors, Anesthesia and Analgesia in Laboratory Animals, page 469",
          "text": "Chinchillas inhabit high elevations (3,000–5,000m) of the Chilean Andes Mountains. The chinchillas kept as pet or research animals in North America are all descendents of 13 founders wild caught in 1927.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Ron E. Banks, Julie M. Sharp, Sonia D. Doss, Deborah A. Vanderford, Exotic Small Mammal Care and Husbandry, page 125",
          "text": "Chinchillas are long-lived rodents that are native to South America, primarily Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile. The chinchilla is a hystricomorph (hedgehoglike) rodent closely related to guinea pigs, porcupines, and agoutis (Hrapkiewicz et al., 1998).",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "crepuscular",
          "crepuscular"
        ],
        [
          "Chinchilla",
          "Chinchilla"
        ],
        [
          "Andes",
          "Andes"
        ],
        [
          "prize",
          "prize"
        ],
        [
          "soft",
          "soft"
        ],
        [
          "fur",
          "fur"
        ],
        [
          "pet",
          "pet"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(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": [
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The fur of a chinchilla, used for clothing."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) The fur of a chinchilla, used for clothing."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "A variety of Persian cat with white fur and green eyes."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Persian cat",
          "Persian cat"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "/t͡ʃɪnˈt͡ʃɪlə/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪlə"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "word": "chinchilla"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "činčila",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "чинчила"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "xinxilla"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "word": "毛絲鼠"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "máosīshǔ",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "word": "毛丝鼠"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "word": "絨鼠"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "róngshǔ",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "word": "绒鼠"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "word": "龍貓"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "lóngmāo",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "word": "龙猫"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "lìshǔ",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "word": "栗鼠"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "činčila"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "word": "chinchilla"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "chinchilla"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "word": "ĉinĉilo"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ĉinĉilino"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "word": "sinsilla"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "word": "tsintsilla"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "chinchilla"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "chinchilla"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Chinchilla"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "tsintsilá",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "word": "τσιντσιλά"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "word": "csincsilla"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cincillà"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "chinchira",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "word": "チンチラ"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "şinşilla",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "word": "шиншилла"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "word": "cincila"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "chinchilla"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "chinchilla"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "szynszyla"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "chinchila"
    },
    {
      "code": "qu",
      "lang": "Quechua",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "word": "chinchilla"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "șinșilă"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "cincila"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "šinšílla",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "шинши́лла"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "chinchilla"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "rodent",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "chinchilla"
    },
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "fur",
      "word": "chinchillabont"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "fur",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "chinchilla"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "fur",
      "word": "ĉinĉilaĵo"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "fur",
      "word": "tsintsilla"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "fur",
      "word": "chinchilla"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "fur",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Chinchilla"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "fur",
      "word": "csincsilla"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "fur",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "cincillà"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "šinšílla",
      "sense": "fur",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "шинши́лла"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "chinchilla"
  ],
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}

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