chinchillalike

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

chinchilla +‎ -like

Adjective[edit]

chinchillalike (comparative more chinchillalike, superlative most chinchillalike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a chinchilla.
    • 2007 May 1, John J. Flynn, André R. Wyss and Reynaldo Charrier, “South America's Missing Mammals”, in Scientific American[1]:
      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.