Meaning chinchilla
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chinchilla


small South American rodent, 1590s, from Spanish, literally "little bug," diminutive of chinche (see chinch); perhaps a folk-etymology alteration of a word from Quechua or Aymara.
Source: etymonline.com

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chinchilla


rodent native to South America.
Source: nationalgeographic.org

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chinchilla


(n) the expensive silvery grey fur of the chinchilla(n) a thick twilled fabric of wool and cotton(n) small rodent with soft pearly grey fur; native to the Andes but bred in captivity for fur
Source: beedictionary.com

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chinchilla


A genus of the Family Chinchillidae which consists of three species: C. brevicaudata, C. lanigera, and C. villidera. They are used extensively in Biomedical Research.
Source: online-medical-dictionary.org

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chinchilla


A genus of the family Chinchillidae which consists of three species: C. brevicaudata, C. lanigera, and C. villidera. They are used extensively in biomedical research.
Source: medicaldictionaryweb.com

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chinchilla


Chinchilla chinchilla|species|noshow=1 (short-tailed chinchilla,pedia=1),(long-tailed chinchilla,pedia=1) species
Source: en.wiktionary.org





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