chinchillalike

English

Etymology

From chinchilla +‎ -like.

Adjective

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.