Is 'chinchilla' English, or is it actually Spanish (Mexico)?

'Chinchilla' is a word borrowed from Spanish (Mexico) 'chinchilla'. The word entered the English language some time around 1604.

chinchilla [noun] [1604]

• either of two small South American rodents ( and Chinchilla laniger of the family Chinchillidae) of the high Andes that...
• the fur of a chinchilla
• a heavy twilled woolen coating

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Etymology: Spanish

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