Meanings
- not comparablerareRelating to, or resembling, the chinchilla, or other mammals of the family Chinchillidae.
The few micro-mammals recorded at Chucal are still either undescribed or endemic (e.g. chinchilline rodents) and can not be compared with those of high-latitude localities.
2010, Richard H. Madden, The Paleontology of Gran Barranca2 more examples
Mr. Allen thinks, however, that some imperfectly known remains from the bone caves of Anguilla Island, called Amblyrhiza and Loxomylus, and supposed to be chinchilline, may also prove to belong here.
1888, John Sterling Kingsley, The Riverside Natural History, volume 5, page 117The characteristic fauna includes some aberrant didelphid and caenolestid opossums, and some distinct armadillos; many specialized hystricomorph rodents, such as chinchillas, viscachas, maras (harelike), chinchilline rats, octodon rats, and tuco-tucos (gopherlike) […]
1950, Handbook of South American Indians
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