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chinchilla
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish chinchilla.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??n?t??l?/
- Rhymes: -?l?
Noun
chinchilla (countable and uncountable, plural chinchillas)
- (countable) Either of two small, crepuscular rodents of the genus Chinchilla, native to the Andes, prized for their very soft fur and often kept as pets.
- 2004, Jamie Huggins, Chinchillas - from Pets to Profession, page 3,
- It's important to put a lot of thought into owning a chinchilla since they have a considerably long lifespan of 10 to 20 years.
- Chinchillas are most widely known for their exceptional fur coat.
- 2008, Jeff Wyatt, Chapter 17: Anesthesia and Analgesia in Other Mammals, Richard E. Fish, Marilyn J. Brown, Peggy J. Danneman, Alicia Z. Karas (editors), Anesthesia and Analgesia in Laboratory Animals, page 469,
- Chinchillas inhabit high elevations (3,000–5,000m) of the Chilean Andes Mountains. The chinchillas kept as pet or research animals in North America are all descendents[sic] of 13 founders wild caught in 1927.
- 2009, Ron E. Banks, Julie M. Sharp, Sonia D. Doss, Deborah A. Vanderford, Exotic Small Mammal Care and Husbandry, page 125,
- Chinchillas are long-lived rodents that are native to South America, primarily Peru, Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile. The chinchilla is a hystricomorph (hedgehoglike) rodent closely related to guinea pigs, porcupines, and agoutis (Hrapkiewicz et al., 1998).
- 2004, Jamie Huggins, Chinchillas - from Pets to Profession, page 3,
- (uncountable) The fur of a chinchilla, used for clothing.
- A variety of Persian cat with white fur and green eyes.
Derived terms
- chinchilla rat
- long-tailed chinchilla (Chinchilla lanigera)
- short-tailed chinchilla (Chinchilla chinchilla, syn. Chinchilla brevicaudata)
Translations
See also
- viscacha
Danish
Noun
chinchilla (singular definite chinchillaen, plural indefinite chinchillaer)
- chinchilla
References
- “chinchilla” in Den Danske Ordbog
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish chinchilla.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t??n?t??.la?/
- Hyphenation: chin?chil?la
Noun
chinchilla f (plural chinchilla's, diminutive chinchillaatje n)
- chinchilla, rodent of the genus Chinchilla
- lesser chinchilla, long-tailed chinchilla, Chinchilla lanigera
Noun
chinchilla n (uncountable)
- chinchilla fur
Finnish
Alternative forms
- sinsilla
- tsintsilla
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?t?int?il(?)?/, [?t??in?t??il(?)?]
- IPA(key): /?tsintsil(?)?/, [?ts?ints?il(?)?]
- IPA(key): /?sinsil(?)?/, [?s?ins?il(?)?]
- Rhymes: -il??
- Syllabification: chin?chil?la
Noun
chinchilla
- chinchilla
Declension
French
Etymology
From Spanish, from Aymara
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???.?i.la/
Noun
chinchilla m (plural chinchillas)
- chinchilla (rodent)
- (uncountable) chinchilla fur
- chinchilla (cat)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Spanish chinchilla, from either Aymara or Quechua
Noun
chinchilla m (definite singular chinchillaen, indefinite plural chinchillaer, definite plural chinchillaene)
- a chinchilla
References
- “chinchilla” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “chinchilla” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Spanish chinchilla, from either Aymara or Quechua
Noun
chinchilla m (definite singular chinchillaen, indefinite plural chinchillaer or chinchillaar, definite plural chinchillaene or chinchillaane)
- a chinchilla
References
- “chinchilla” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Aymara [Term?].
Pronunciation
Noun
chinchilla f (plural chinchillas)
- chinchilla
Derived terms
Swedish
Noun
chinchilla c
- chinchilla
Declension
chinchilla From the web:
- what chinchillas eat
- what chinchillas need
- what chinchilla noises mean
- what chinchilla sounds mean
- what chinchillas eat in the wild
- what chinchillas can eat
- what chinchillas look like
rabbit
English
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) enPR: r?b'it, IPA(key): /??æb?t/
- Rhymes: -æb?t
- (General Australian, weak vowel merger) enPR: r?b'?t, IPA(key): /??æb?t/
- Homophone: rabbet
Etymology 1
From Middle English rabet, rabette, from Middle French *robotte, *rabotte or Anglo-Latin rabettus, from dialectal Old French rabotte, probably a diminutive of Middle Dutch or West Flemish robbe, perhaps related to robbe (“seal”), itself of uncertain origin; possibly some imitative verb, maybe robben, rubben (“to rub”) is used here to allude to a characteristic of the animal. See rub.
Related forms include Middle French rabouillet (“baby rabbit”) and in French rabot (“plane”)), coming via Walloon Old French (reflected nowadays as Walloon robète (“rabbit”)), from Middle Dutch robbe (“rabbit; seal”); also Middle Low German robbe, rubbe (“rabbit”), and the later Low German Rubbe (“seal”), West Frisian robbe (“seal”), Saterland Frisian robbe (“seal”), North Frisian rob (“seal”), borrowed into German Robbe (“seal”).
Noun
rabbit (countable and uncountable, plural rabbits)
- A mammal of the family Leporidae, with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail.
- (uncountable) The meat from this animal.
- (uncountable) The fur of a rabbit typically used to imitate another animal's fur.
- A runner in a distance race whose goal is mainly to set the pace, either to tire a specific rival so that a teammate can win or to help another break a record; a pacesetter.
- (cricket) A very poor batsman; selected as a bowler or wicket-keeper.
- (computing theory) A large element at the beginning of a list of items to be bubble sorted, and thus tending to be quickly swapped into its correct position. Compare turtle.
- Rarebit; Welsh rabbit or a similar dish: melted cheese served atop toast.
- 2018, Helen Saberi, Teatimes: A World Tour, Reaktion Books (?ISBN)
- The cheese mixture may be served with toast on the side or poured on top of toast and grilled until golden brown and bubbling. Other variations include Buck rabbit, a Welsh rabbit with a poached egg on top, and Yorkshire rabbit with bacon ...
- 1858, Mrs. N. K. M. Lee, The American Family Cook Book, page 47:
- CHEESE TOASTED, OR RABBIT.
- 2019, Mark Kurlansky, Milk: A 10,000-Year History, Bloomsbury Publishing (?ISBN)
- Hannah Glasse offered recipes for Scotch, Welsh, and English rabbit. This is her Scotch rabbit: Toast a piece of bread very nicely […] Cut a slice of cheese, […]
- 2018, Helen Saberi, Teatimes: A World Tour, Reaktion Books (?ISBN)
- A pneumatically-controlled tool used to insert small samples of material inside the core of a nuclear reactor.
- 2012, Joseph Cerny, Nuclear Spectroscopy and Reactions 40-A (part 1, page 249)
- This rabbit is constructed such that only that fraction of the beam that passes through the 15g-in. diameter target container reaches the Faraday cup behind the rabbit.
- 2012, Joseph Cerny, Nuclear Spectroscopy and Reactions 40-A (part 1, page 249)
Synonyms
(animal):
- bunny (hypocoristic, colloquial, pet name)
- bunny rabbit (hypocoristic, colloquial, pet name)
- coney, cony (dialect)
Hyponyms
- bunny rabbit
- jackrabbit
Derived terms
- rabbiter
- rabbity
Related terms
Translations
Verb
rabbit (third-person singular simple present rabbits, present participle rabbitting or rabbiting, simple past and past participle rabbitted or rabbited)
- (intransitive) To hunt rabbits.
- (US, intransitive) To flee.
- The informant seemed skittish, as if he was about to rabbit.
Synonyms
- (to flee): run off, scamper, bolt
Translations
See also
Etymology 2
From Cockney rhyming slang rabbit and pork, to talk.
Verb
rabbit (third-person singular simple present rabbits, present participle rabbiting, simple past and past participle rabbited)
- (Britain, intransitive) To talk incessantly and in a childish manner; to babble annoyingly.
- Synonym: rabbit on
- Stop your infernal rabbiting! Use proper words or nobody will listen to you!
Synonyms
- (to talk incessantly and childishly): babble, blather, prattle; see also Thesaurus:prattle
Translations
See also
- chew the fat
- chew the cud (British)
- shoot the breeze (US)
Etymology 3
Perhaps a corruption of rabate.
Verb
rabbit
- Confound; damn; drat.
Finnish
Noun
rabbit
- Nominative plural form of rabbi.
Anagrams
- barbit
Hungarian
Etymology
rabbi +? -t
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?r?b?it]
- Hyphenation: rab?bit
Noun
rabbit
- accusative singular of rabbi
rabbit From the web:
- what rabbits eat
- what rabbits can eat
- what rabbit breed lives the longest
- what rabbits can't eat
- what rabbit has antlers
- what rabbit has horns
- what rabbits eat in the wild
- what rabbits make the best pets
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