chinchilla
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The costliest felines to insure were the Maine coon, one of the largest house cats, which can be prone to a type of muscle atrophy, and the chinchilla, a popular longhair, Spot Pet Insurance said.
From New York Times • Jun. 7, 2024
TL:DR: do not lick your chinchilla while you have monkeypox.
From The Verge • Aug. 5, 2022
Perhaps the most famous ode to this mammal comes from Beyonce’s 2006 hit “Ring the Alarm,” with the opening lyric saying “she gon’ be rockin’ chinchilla coats” as a symbol of confidence and independence.
From Scientific American • Jun. 17, 2022
The chinchilla phenotype, cchcch, is expressed as black-tipped white fur.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
I could also name some rarer animals: chinchilla, mink, crocodile, ostrich, emu, beaver, leopard.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
