CAVY
Dictionary entry overview: What does cavy mean? • CAVY (noun)
The noun CAVY has 1 sense:
1. short-tailed rough-haired South American rodent
Familiarity information: CAVY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CAVY (noun)
Meaning:
Short-tailed rough-haired South American rodent
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("cavy" is a kind of...):
gnawer; gnawing animal; rodent (relatively small gnawing animals 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)
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