Word Meanings - CHINCHILLA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small rodent , of the size of a large squirrel, remarkable for its fine fur, which is very soft and of a pearly gray color. It is a native of Peru and Chili. 2. The fur of the chinchilla. 3. A heavy, longnapped, tufted woolen cloth.

Related words: (words related to CHINCHILLA)

• COLORMAN
  A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
• WOOLEN
  1. Made of wool; consisting of wool; as, woolen goods. 2. Of or pertaining to wool or woolen cloths; as, woolen manufactures; a woolen mill; a woolen draper. Woolen scribbler, a machine for combing or preparing wool in thin, downy, translucent
• CHILIAN
  Of or pertaining to Chili. -- n.
• RODENTIA
  An order of mammals having two large incisor teeth in each jaw, distant from the molar teeth. The rats, squirrels, rabbits, marmots, and beavers belong to this order. Note: The incisor teeth are long, curved, and strongly enameled on the outside,
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
• CLOTHESLINE
  A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• SQUIRREL
  Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus Sciurus and several allied genera of the famly Sciuridæ. Squirrels generally have a bushy tail, large erect ears, and strong hind legs. They are commonly arboreal in their habits,
• NATIVE
  1. Arising by birth; having an origin; born. Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times. Cudworth. 2. Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances
• COLORADO BEETLE
  A yellowish beetle , with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.
• COLORADOITE
  Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.
• HEAVY-HEADED
  Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl.
• PEARLY
  1. Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells. Milton. 2. Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood.
• TUFT
  1. A collection of small, flexible, or soft things in a knot or bunch; a waving or bending and spreading cluster; as, a tuft of flowers or feathers. 2. A cluster; a clump; as, a tuft of plants. Under a tuft of shade. Milton. Green lake, and cedar
• CHILIASTIC
  Millenarian. "The obstruction offered by the chiliastic errors." J. A. Alexander.
• ELIMINATIVE
  Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
• NOMINATIVELY
  In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• EMANATIVE
  Issuing forth; effluent.
• DOMINATIVE
  Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
• CONCOLOR
  Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
• CORRODENT
  Corrosive. Bp. King.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• REGNATIVE
  Ruling; governing.
• COORDINATIVE
  Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs.
• HEARSECLOTH
  A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
• TROCHILIC
  OF or pertaining to rotary motion; having power to draw out or turn round. "By art trochilic." Camden.
• BREECHCLOTH
  A cloth worn around the breech.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an