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# chinchilla

noun (a chinchilla, chinchillas; chinchilla fur)

«chinchilla» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. A small rodent from the Andes mountains of South America, with very soft, thick grey fur and a bushy tail. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chinchilla/#m1)
2. The fur of this animal. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chinchilla/#m2)

### In the lessons

In nature lessons chinchillas are animals of the cold, high Andes; their fur is extremely thick to keep them warm. Some families keep them as pets; they clean their fur by rolling in dust, not by taking a bath. Phrases: «a pet chinchilla», «dust bath».

### Examples

- A chinchilla has the softest fur of any land animal. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chinchilla/#x1)
- Our pet chinchilla rolls in special dust to keep clean. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chinchilla/#x2)
- Chinchillas come from the Andes mountains. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chinchilla/#x3)
- Chinchillas must not get wet, because their fur takes too long to dry. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chinchilla/#x4)
- Wild chinchillas are now rare because they were hunted for fur. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chinchilla/#x5)
- The chinchilla nibbled a bit of hay. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chinchilla/#x6)

### Note

Countable. Spelled with «ch» twice and «ll»; say chin-CHIL-uh. Not a hamster or a rabbit, though it looks a bit like both.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «chinchilla» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chinchilla/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«chinchilla» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/chinchilla.html) on Mova free.