Definition of Family Chinchillidae

1. Noun. Small bushy-tailed South American burrowing rodents.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Chinchillidae

family Chaetodontidae
family Chalcidae
family Chalcididae
family Chamaeleonidae
family Chamaeleontidae
family Characeae
family Characidae
family Characinidae
family Charadriidae
family Chelonidae
family Cheloniidae
family Chelydridae
family Chenopodiaceae
family Chermidae
family Chimaeridae
family Chinchillidae (current term)
family Chironomidae
family Chlamydiaceae
family Chlamydomonadaceae
family Chloranthaceae
family Chlorophthalmidae
family Chrysochloridae
family Chrysomelidae
family Chrysopidae
family Chytridiaceae
family Cicadellidae
family Cicadidae
family Cichlidae
family Cicindelidae
family Ciconiidae

Literary usage of Family Chinchillidae

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

1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... a large South American burrowing rodent mammal belonging to the family Chinchillidae and commonly known as ..."

2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1919)
"These are put into the family Chinchillidae, but their nearest affinities are with the extinct Mega- mys and ..."

3. Natural History in Zoological Gardens: Being Some Account of Vertebrated Animals by Frank Evers Beddard (1905)
"... rodent of the same family, Chinchillidae. The tail is long and the colour is dark, agreeably diversified by white patches on the cheeks and below. ..."

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