cavy

English Thesaurus

1. short-tailed rough-haired South American rodent (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	gnawer, rodent,
definition	:	relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	cavia cobaya, guinea pig,
definition	:	stout-bodied nearly tailless domesticated cavy; often kept as a pet and widely used in research (noun.animal)

hyponym	:	aperea, cavia porcellus, wild cavy,
definition	:	South American cavy; possibly ancestral to the domestic guinea pig (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	cavia, genus cavia,
definition	:	type genus of the Caviidae: guinea pigs (noun.animal)