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CHINCHILLA LANIGER

Dictionary entry overview: What does Chinchilla laniger mean?

• CHINCHILLA LANIGER (noun)
The noun CHINCHILLA LANIGER has 1 sense:

1. small rodent with soft pearly grey fur; native to the Andes but bred in captivity for fur

Familiarity information: CHINCHILLA LANIGER used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• CHINCHILLA LANIGER (noun)

Sense 1

Chinchilla laniger ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Chinchilla laniger; chinchilla

Hypernyms ("Chinchilla laniger" is a kind of...):

gnawer; gnawing animal; rodent (relatively small gnawing animals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing)

Holonyms ("Chinchilla laniger" is a member of...):

genus Chinchilla (type genus of the Chinchillidae)

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