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cavy

[key-vee] / ˈkeɪ vi /
NOUN
guinea pig
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The zoo also has three of the world’s four largest rodents, including the Patagonian cavy, a sweet-tempered mammal that looks like a cross between a jack rabbit and a dog.

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2014

While looking at the pictures half the children heard factual narrative, like, “Mother cavy licks the babies’ fur to keep them clean.”

From Scientific American • Apr. 8, 2014

Mother cavy also licks the babies’ fur to keep them clean.

From Scientific American • Mar. 27, 2014

When the mother cavy wakes up, she usually eats lots of grass and other plants.

From Scientific American • Mar. 27, 2014

Skunks, and a small kind of cavy, had burrowed every where, which proves the climate to be of a different nature from that of the Strait.

From Narrative of the surveying voyages of His Majesty's ships Adventure and Beagle, between the years 1826 and 1836 Volume I. - Proceedings of the First Expedition, 1826-1830 by Fitzroy, Robert




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