CHINCHILLA LANIGER

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

chinchilla; Chinchilla laniger

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Nouns denoting animals

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

gnawer; rodent (relatively small placental mammals 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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