chinchilla vs pelt

chinchilla and pelt both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
chinchilla	Yes	No	No	No
pelt	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, pelt is a hypernym of chinchilla; that is, pelt is a word with a broader meaning than chinchilla:

Other hypernyms of chinchilla include fur.

chinchilla (noun)	pelt (noun)
small rodent with soft pearly grey fur; native to the Andes but bred in captivity for fur	body covering of a living animal
a thick twilled fabric of wool and cotton	the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
the expensive silvery grey fur of the chinchilla

chinchilla (verb)	pelt (verb)
	attack and bombard with or as if with missiles
	cast, hurl, or throw repeatedly with some missile
	rain heavily