Translingual

Chinchilla lanigera

Proper noun

Chinchillidae

1. A taxonomic family within the infraorder Caviomorpha – the chinchillas and viscachas.

Hypernyms

• (family): Mammalia - class, Theria - subclass, Placentalia - infraclass, Rodentia - order, Hystricomorpha - suborder, Hystricognathi - infraorder, Caviomorpha - infraorder

Hyponyms

• (family): Chinchilla (chinchillas), Lagidium (most viscachas), Lagostomus (plains viscacha) (genera)
  • Eoviscaccia (extinct genus)