A small wild cat native to South America, particularly the Andes region, with thick soft fur, or a variation of the word 'chinchilla.'
Spanish word from South American indigenous languages, used by colonial settlers to describe the wild feline. The term may be related to or confused with 'chinchilla,' another small South American mammal.
The chilla is sometimes mistaken for a chinchilla, but they're totally different—one's a cat, one's a rodent! Language gets fuzzy when Europeans encountered tons of new animals they'd never seen before.
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