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Chinchillidae

noun

small bushy-tailed South American burrowing rodents

• Syn: ↑family Chinchillidae

• Hypernyms: ↑mammal family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Hystricomorpha, ↑suborder Hystricomorpha

• Member Meronyms:

↑genus Chinchilla, ↑Lagidium, ↑genus Lagidium, ↑Lagostomus, ↑genus Lagostomus, ↑Abrocoma, ↑genus Abrocoma

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\\ ̷ ̷ˈ ̷ ̷ləˌdē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Chinchilla, type genus + -idae

: a family of small bushy-tailed burrowing hystricomorph rodents of the uplands of So. America that includes the chinchillas, the vizcachas, and extinct related forms

Useful english dictionary. 2012.