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cavy

DEFINITIONS OF: cavy

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n short-tailed rough-haired South American rodent

Types:
Cavia cobaya, guinea pig
stout-bodied nearly tailless domesticated cavy; often kept as a pet and widely used in research
Cavia porcellus, aperea, wild cavy
South American cavy; possibly ancestral to the domestic guinea pig
Type of:
gnawer, rodent
relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing
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