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单词 chinchilla
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Definition of chinchilla in English:

chinchilla

noun tʃɪnˈtʃɪlətʃɪnˈtʃɪlə
  • 1A small South American rodent with soft grey fur and a long bushy tail.

    Genus Chinchilla, family Chinchillidae: two species

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The common name of these rats is probably due to their long, dense, and soft fur, which is sometimes sold in fur markets, although it is not as desirably as that of true chinchillas (Chinchillidae).
    • The Rodentia also includes beavers, muskrats, porcupines, woodchucks, chipmunks, squirrels, prairie dogs, marmots, chinchillas, voles, lemmings, and many others.
    • If you've got chinchillas or hamsters or any other small furry creatures, there is more than a trip to the microwave in store for them when it comes to playtime.
    • Living caviomorphs include guinea pigs, chinchillas, and capybaras, which at 50 kg weigh in as the largest living rodents.
    • Unfortunately, chinchillas are nearly extinct in the wild, so little is known of their behavior under natural conditions.
    • I was trapped for about half an hour with the chinchillas jumping around chewing on my hair.
    • There was also a pets competition for children who arrived with chinchillas, hamsters, guinea pigs and rabbits.
    • Miranda, 32, lives just outside Bristol with her husband and two chinchillas.
    • The reality is that it takes the barbaric murder of 50 chinchillas or other furry animals, on average, to produce a full-length coat.
    • Other unusual finds include a couple of chinchillas and 16 dogs that had been left in the Louisiana State University Medical Center, Bafalis says.
    • He personally has freeze-dried weasels, deer, chipmunks, squirrels, guinea pigs, chinchillas, ferrets, and more.
    • True, there may be a great many cuter animals - koalas, chinchillas, moomins and ewoks to name but a few, but guinea pigs reap extra appeal due to their peculiar nature.
    • It turns out that chinchillas and cotton-top tamarins can do a lot of the same things.
    • Last I heard they were raising chinchillas in the Dominican Republic.
    • The guinea-pig belongs to the family of Cabiidae, which is genetically closer - despite its appearance - to the chinchilla or the porcupine than to the mouse or the rat.
    • Is it closest to the mole rats, or porcupines, or even chinchillas?
    • An animal-loving teenager was left ‘devastated’ after the theft of two chinchillas.
    • They are definitely not rats or squirrels, and are only vaguely like a guinea pig or a chinchilla.
    • The rodent also seems to be an ancestor of the hystricognaths, a group of rodents that is spread across the globe and includes porcupines, African mole rats, guinea pigs, and chinchillas.
    • The first stop allows youngsters to feed the deer and sheep, then the party moves onwards to stroke the ducks and, finally, to feed the rabbits, rats, mice, guinea pigs, chinchillas, hamsters and terrapins.
  • 2A cat or rabbit of a breed with silver-grey or grey fur.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The five cats include three pedigrees - a silver tipped chinchilla and two Persians - a tabby and white cat and grey cat.
    • There were also separate standards for shaded silvers, chinchillas and tortoiseshells.
    • He was surely the reason why I remained in grade school and failed to earn millions by raising mushrooms, breeding chinchillas or stuffing envelopes at home.
  • 3mass noun The highly valued fur of the chinchilla, or of the chinchilla rabbit.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • First, the amount of fur on show at the exhibition has angered many, including protest group PETA who reacted against his collection, which included fox, chinchilla, mink and sable furs.
    • He layers the bed with lots of, sort of deep, comfy fabrics, a faux chinchilla throw, kind of crazy stuff like that.
    • Enter Torre, 5,000 square feet of everything from white T-shirts to chinchilla furs for big guys.
    • Ditto for the Bentley convertible, the chinchilla coat and the diamond Rolex.
    • Phillip buys Barry and Sean chinchilla rabbits, but Barry and Sean reciprocate with ponies, jodhpurs and black velvet jackets for Daphne and Chloe.
    • The rest are farmed furs, such as chinchilla or mink.
    • You can find leopard, cheetah, chinchilla, mink and fox.
    • There is a marked return to double-breasted coats, discretion at first glance giving way to luxurious linings of mink and chinchilla.
    • She wore a canary yellow chinchilla clutch coat and pristine, satin, white gloves up to her elbows.
    • Look to fashion magazines and mail-order catalogs for silhouette ideas and to determine whether you prefer a long-pile fur such as fox or Mongolian lamb, or shorter ones such as chinchilla, sheared beaver or leopard.
    • Topping it all with fur, Dior has turned chinchilla and foxtail inside out and unlined with the aim of showing off their rough unfinished zigzag seams without a modicum of pretense.
    • Amy stepped into the room from the walk-in closet, a white chinchilla wrap and white gloves in her hands.
    • Without another word, the old woman in the yellow chinchilla coat tugged at Francois's gemmed leash and trotted off, clutching her coat together with one hand.
    • In the spring of 1920 alone, she spent $1 million in a single week, buying $300,000 worth of pearls, a $65,000 Russian sable coat and a $30,000 chinchilla.
    • Even softer was the chinchilla that lined baby corduroy gilets and below-the-knee hunting shorts, both of them covered in pockets for any game you might find in the Sicilian scrub.
    • Consider her demeanour when she emerged from the courtroom after hearing her guilty verdict wearing that ill-advised dyed chinchilla scarf.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Spanish, from Aymara or Quechua.

Rhymes

Anguilla, Aquila, Attila, Camilla, cedilla, chiller, driller, Drusilla, fibrillar, filler, flotilla, fulfiller, Godzilla, gorilla, griller, guerrilla, killer, Manila, manilla, mantilla, miller, pillar, Priscilla, sapodilla, sarsaparilla, Schiller, scilla, scintilla, spiller, swiller, thriller, tiller, vanilla, vexilla, villa, Willa, willer, zorilla
 
 

Definition of chinchilla in US English:

chinchilla

nountʃɪnˈtʃɪləCHinˈCHilə
  • 1A small South American rodent with soft gray fur and a long bushy tail.

    Genus Chinchilla, family Chinchillidae: two species, in particular C. lanigera

    Example sentencesExamples
    • An animal-loving teenager was left ‘devastated’ after the theft of two chinchillas.
    • Living caviomorphs include guinea pigs, chinchillas, and capybaras, which at 50 kg weigh in as the largest living rodents.
    • True, there may be a great many cuter animals - koalas, chinchillas, moomins and ewoks to name but a few, but guinea pigs reap extra appeal due to their peculiar nature.
    • Unfortunately, chinchillas are nearly extinct in the wild, so little is known of their behavior under natural conditions.
    • They are definitely not rats or squirrels, and are only vaguely like a guinea pig or a chinchilla.
    • The common name of these rats is probably due to their long, dense, and soft fur, which is sometimes sold in fur markets, although it is not as desirably as that of true chinchillas (Chinchillidae).
    • The guinea-pig belongs to the family of Cabiidae, which is genetically closer - despite its appearance - to the chinchilla or the porcupine than to the mouse or the rat.
    • Other unusual finds include a couple of chinchillas and 16 dogs that had been left in the Louisiana State University Medical Center, Bafalis says.
    • It turns out that chinchillas and cotton-top tamarins can do a lot of the same things.
    • The first stop allows youngsters to feed the deer and sheep, then the party moves onwards to stroke the ducks and, finally, to feed the rabbits, rats, mice, guinea pigs, chinchillas, hamsters and terrapins.
    • I was trapped for about half an hour with the chinchillas jumping around chewing on my hair.
    • If you've got chinchillas or hamsters or any other small furry creatures, there is more than a trip to the microwave in store for them when it comes to playtime.
    • Miranda, 32, lives just outside Bristol with her husband and two chinchillas.
    • There was also a pets competition for children who arrived with chinchillas, hamsters, guinea pigs and rabbits.
    • The Rodentia also includes beavers, muskrats, porcupines, woodchucks, chipmunks, squirrels, prairie dogs, marmots, chinchillas, voles, lemmings, and many others.
    • He personally has freeze-dried weasels, deer, chipmunks, squirrels, guinea pigs, chinchillas, ferrets, and more.
    • Is it closest to the mole rats, or porcupines, or even chinchillas?
    • The reality is that it takes the barbaric murder of 50 chinchillas or other furry animals, on average, to produce a full-length coat.
    • Last I heard they were raising chinchillas in the Dominican Republic.
    • The rodent also seems to be an ancestor of the hystricognaths, a group of rodents that is spread across the globe and includes porcupines, African mole rats, guinea pigs, and chinchillas.
    1. 1.1 A cat or rabbit of a breed with silver-gray or gray fur.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The five cats include three pedigrees - a silver tipped chinchilla and two Persians - a tabby and white cat and grey cat.
      • There were also separate standards for shaded silvers, chinchillas and tortoiseshells.
      • He was surely the reason why I remained in grade school and failed to earn millions by raising mushrooms, breeding chinchillas or stuffing envelopes at home.
    2. 1.2 The highly valued fur of the chinchilla, or of the chinchilla rabbit.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Enter Torre, 5,000 square feet of everything from white T-shirts to chinchilla furs for big guys.
      • First, the amount of fur on show at the exhibition has angered many, including protest group PETA who reacted against his collection, which included fox, chinchilla, mink and sable furs.
      • There is a marked return to double-breasted coats, discretion at first glance giving way to luxurious linings of mink and chinchilla.
      • Look to fashion magazines and mail-order catalogs for silhouette ideas and to determine whether you prefer a long-pile fur such as fox or Mongolian lamb, or shorter ones such as chinchilla, sheared beaver or leopard.
      • She wore a canary yellow chinchilla clutch coat and pristine, satin, white gloves up to her elbows.
      • Consider her demeanour when she emerged from the courtroom after hearing her guilty verdict wearing that ill-advised dyed chinchilla scarf.
      • Even softer was the chinchilla that lined baby corduroy gilets and below-the-knee hunting shorts, both of them covered in pockets for any game you might find in the Sicilian scrub.
      • The rest are farmed furs, such as chinchilla or mink.
      • Topping it all with fur, Dior has turned chinchilla and foxtail inside out and unlined with the aim of showing off their rough unfinished zigzag seams without a modicum of pretense.
      • Without another word, the old woman in the yellow chinchilla coat tugged at Francois's gemmed leash and trotted off, clutching her coat together with one hand.
      • Phillip buys Barry and Sean chinchilla rabbits, but Barry and Sean reciprocate with ponies, jodhpurs and black velvet jackets for Daphne and Chloe.
      • He layers the bed with lots of, sort of deep, comfy fabrics, a faux chinchilla throw, kind of crazy stuff like that.
      • Ditto for the Bentley convertible, the chinchilla coat and the diamond Rolex.
      • You can find leopard, cheetah, chinchilla, mink and fox.
      • Amy stepped into the room from the walk-in closet, a white chinchilla wrap and white gloves in her hands.
      • In the spring of 1920 alone, she spent $1 million in a single week, buying $300,000 worth of pearls, a $65,000 Russian sable coat and a $30,000 chinchilla.

Origin

Early 17th century: from Spanish, from Aymara or Quechua.

 
 
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