chinchilla laniger

English Thesaurus

1. small rodent with soft pearly grey fur; native to the Andes but bred in captivity for fur (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	gnawer, rodent,
definition	:	relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus chinchilla,
definition	:	type genus of the Chinchillidae (noun.animal)