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# chinchilla

«chinchilla» in Mova's school dictionary: **A small rodent from the Andes mountains of South America…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a chinchilla, chinchillas; chinchilla fur)

### meaning for a pupil

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

2) The fur of this animal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chinchilla/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chinchilla/#x1)
- Our pet chinchilla rolls in special dust to keep clean. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chinchilla/#x2)
- Chinchillas come from the Andes mountains. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chinchilla/#x4)
- Wild chinchillas are now rare because they were hunted for fur. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chinchilla/#x5)
- The chinchilla nibbled a bit of hay. [tree →](https://md.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.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «chinchilla» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/chinchilla/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.