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Definition of Chinchilla

1. Noun. The expensive silvery grey fur of the chinchilla.

2. Noun. A thick twilled fabric of wool and cotton.

3. Noun. Small rodent with soft pearly grey fur; native to the Andes but bred in captivity for fur.

Definition of Chinchilla

1. n. A small rodent (Chinchilla lanigera), of the size of a large squirrel, remarkable for its fine fur, which is very soft and of a pearly gray color. It is a native of Peru and Chili.

Definition of Chinchilla

1. Noun. A small, nocturnal rodent of the genus Chinchilla, native to the Andes, prized for its very soft fur and also often kept as a pet. ¹

2. Noun. The fur of a chinchilla used for clothing. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chinchilla

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Medical Definition of Chinchilla

1. A genus of the family chinchillidae which consists of three genera: lagidium, lagostomus, and chinchilla. They are used extensively in biomedical research. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chinchilla

chinaware chinawares chinazol chinbone chinbones chincapin chincapins chinch chinch bug chincherie

chincherinchee chincherinchees chinches chinchier chinchiest chinchilla (current term) chinchilla rat chinchillas chinchillid chinchillids

chinchillon chinchona chinchy chindit chindits chine chined chines chinese hamster ovary cell chinese restaurant syndrome

Literary usage of Chinchilla

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Spain and Portugal: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1908)
"From chinchilla (Madrid) to Murcia and Cartagena. 141 M. RAILWAY in 7-91/« hrs. ; fares 27 p. ... There are railway-restaurants at chinchilla and Murcia. ..."

2. The Gardens and Menagerie of the Zoological Society Delineated by Edward Turner Bennett (1830)
"chinchilla LANIGERA. THE peculiar softness and beauty of the fur of the chinchilla have been so long, so ornamentally, and so comfortably known to our fair ..."

3. The Fur Traders and Fur Bearing Animals by Marcus Petersen (1914)
"THE chinchilla. The chinchilla is the most valuable and beautiful of all the rodentia. It is found only in a limited area in South America, where it lives ..."

4. Orr's Circle of the Sciences: A Series of Treatires on the Principles of by Richard Owen, Wm S Orr, John Radford Young, Alexander Jardine, Robert Gordon Latham, Edward Smith, William Sweetland Dallas (1855)
"The Mountain Viscacha (Lagi- Fig. 357.—The chinchilla ... It is a larger animal than the chinchilla, but its fur is not of so much value. ..."

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