Noun: chenille
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | chenille |
| Plural f | chenilles |
Sample Sentences
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Il faut bien que je supporte deux ou trois chenilles si je veux connaître les papillons. (Well, I must endure the presence of two or three caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies.) [1943, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, chapter IX, in Le petit prince [The Little Prince], New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, page 39:]
Nouns inflected like chenille
polémochorie,
kératotomie,
farigoule,
compréhension,
palestre,
abnégation,
hyperuricémie,
psychométrie,
minicassette,
piézo-électricité,
potabilité,
aromathérapie,
conjugalité,
conjugaison,
cohésion,
obscurité,
bacillose,
cohæsion,
aponévrotomie,
sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Latin canīcula (“little dog”) (because of a caterpillar's head). Doublet of canicule. See: Latin Nouns '
canīcula', Latin Nouns '
canīcula'.
Verbs referencing "chenille"
English Nouns
chenille, Finnish Nouns
chenille, Russian Nouns
шинель, Ukrainian Nouns
шинель, Italian Nouns
ciniglia, Romanian Nouns
șenilă, Catalan Nouns
xenilla, Romanian Nouns
janilie, Bulgarian Nouns
шинел.
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