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CAVY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Short-tailed rough-haired South American rodent
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cavy" is a kind of...):
gnawer; rodent (relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cavy"):
Cavia cobaya; guinea pig (stout-bodied nearly tailless domesticated cavy; often kept as a pet and widely used in research)
aperea; Cavia porcellus; wild cavy (South American cavy; possibly ancestral to the domestic guinea pig)
Holonyms ("cavy" is a member of...):
Cavia; genus Cavia (type genus of the Caviidae: guinea pigs)