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LAGIDIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lagidium mean? 

LAGIDIUM (noun)
  The noun LAGIDIUM has 1 sense:

1. a genus of Chinchillidaeplay

  Familiarity information: LAGIDIUM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LAGIDIUM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of Chinchillidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Lagidium; Lagidium

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

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Lagidium"):

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

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

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


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