name
Meaning 1
A surname from Spanish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
chinchilla
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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Pronunciation
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/t͡ʃɪnˈt͡ʃɪlə/
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rhymes with -ɪlə
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CMU ARPABET: CH IH0 N CH IH1 L AH0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A small, crepuscular rodent of the genus Chinchilla, native to the Andes Mountains, prized for their very soft fur and often kept as pets.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
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noun
Meaning 3
The fur of a chinchilla, used for clothing.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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noun
Meaning 4
A variety of Persian cat with white fur and green eyes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 5
small rodent with soft pearly grey fur; native to the Andes but bred in captivity for fur
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: Chinchilla laniger
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: rodent, gnawer
noun
Meaning 6
a thick twilled fabric of wool and cotton
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: coating
noun
Meaning 7
the expensive silvery grey fur of the chinchilla
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: fur, pelt
History
Etymology
Habitational surname borrowed from Spanish Chinchilla. This surname is mostly found in Costa Rica.
Borrowed from Spanish chinchilla.
Across languages
Translations
46 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: chinchilla — rodent
- Bulgarian: чинчила (činčila) — rodent
- Catalan: xinxilla — rodent
- Chinese Mandarin: 毛絲鼠 /毛丝鼠 (máosīshǔ) — rodent
- Chinese Mandarin: 絨鼠 /绒鼠 (róngshǔ) — rodent
- Chinese Mandarin: 龍貓 /龙猫 (lóngmāo) — rodent
- Chinese Mandarin: 栗鼠 (lìshǔ) — rodent
- Czech: činčila — rodent
- Danish: chinchilla — rodent
- Dutch: chinchilla — rodent
- Esperanto: ĉinĉilo — rodent
- Esperanto: ĉinĉilino — rodent
- Finnish: sinsilla — rodent
- Finnish: tsintsilla — rodent
- Finnish: chinchilla — rodent
- French: chinchilla — rodent
- Galician: chinchilla — rodent
- German: Chinchilla — rodent
- Greek: τσιντσιλά (tsintsilá) — rodent
- Hungarian: csincsilla — rodent
- Italian: cincillà — rodent
- Japanese: チンチラ (chinchira) — rodent
- Kazakh: шиншилла (şinşilla) — rodent
- Malay: cincila — rodent
- Norwegian Bokmål: chinchilla — rodent
- Norwegian Nynorsk: chinchilla — rodent
- Polish: szynszyla — rodent
- Portuguese: chinchila — rodent
- Quechua: chinchilla — rodent
- Romanian: șinșilă — rodent
- Romanian: cincila — rodent
- Russian: шинши́лла (šinšílla) — rodent
- Spanish: chinchilla — rodent
- Swedish: chinchilla — rodent
- Turkish: Amerika tavşanı — rodent
- Afrikaans: chinchillabont — fur
- Dutch: chinchilla — fur
- Esperanto: ĉinĉilaĵo — fur
- Finnish: tsintsilla — fur
- French: chinchilla — fur
- German: Chinchilla — fur
- Greek: τσιντσιλά (tsintsilá) — fur
- Hungarian: csincsilla — fur
- Italian: cincillà — fur
- Polish: szynszyla — fur
- Russian: шинши́лла (šinšílla) — fur