cavy
Noun
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Short-tailed rough-haired South American rodent (synset 102367172)
is a type of: gnawer, rodent - relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawingsubtypes:
- 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
belongs to: cavia, genus cavia - type genus of the Caviidae: guinea pigs
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