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chinchillalike

chinchillalike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a chinchilla.

Adjective

chinchillalike (comparative more chinchillalike, superlative most chinchillalike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a chinchilla.
    • In all, during our first three seasons of fieldwork in Tinguiririca, we would turn up more than 300 specimens, includ?ing marsupials, an early sloth, arm?adillos and a chinchillalike rodent.2007 January 5, John J. Flynn, André R. Wyss and Reynaldo Charrier, “South America's Missing Mammals”, in Scientific American

Forms of chinchillalike

comparativemore chinchillalike
superlativemost chinchillalike

Origin of chinchillalike

From chinchilla + -like.

Questions about chinchillalike

What does chinchillalike mean?
Chinchillalike means resembling or characteristic of a chinchilla.
What part of speech is chinchillalike?
Chinchillalike is an adjective.

Words near chinchillalike in the dictionary

  1. chinchilla rats
  2. chinchilla wattle
  3. chinchilla wattles
  4. chinchillada
  5. chinchilladas
  6. chinchillalike
  7. chinchillas
  8. chinchillated
  9. chinchillation
  10. chinchillid
  11. chinchillids

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