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GENUS LAGIDIUM

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Meaning:

A genus of Chinchillidae

Synonyms:

genus Lagidium; Lagidium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Lagidium" is a kind of...):

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "genus Lagidium"):

mountain chinchilla; mountain viscacha (a rodent native to the mountains of Chile and Peru and now bred in captivity)

Holonyms ("genus Lagidium" is a member of...):

Chinchillidae; family Chinchillidae (small bushy-tailed South American burrowing rodents)

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