cavy
Americannoun
plural
caviesnoun
Etymology
Origin of cavy
1790–1800; < New Latin Cavia name of the genus < Carib ( Galibi ) cabiai
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South America - Middle School
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Example Sentences
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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
The other half heard anthropomorphized language, like “Mother cavy tucks her babies into bed in a small cave.”
From Scientific American • Apr. 8, 2014
Mother cavy thinks as she eats her breakfast.
From Scientific American • Mar. 27, 2014
Mother cavy also licks the babies’ fur to keep them clean.
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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