Guinea-pig synonyms

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cavy
A guinea pig.
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experimental subject
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cavia-porcellus
A taxonomic species within the genus Cavia — the guinea pig.
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hamster (related)
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lab rat
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examinee
One that is examined.
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laboratory animal
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rodent
Any of various very numerous, mostly small mammals of the order Rodentia, having large front teeth used for gnawing. The teeth grow throughout the animal's life, and are kept from getting too long by gnawing. Rodents make up about half the living species of mammals, and include rats, mice, beavers, squirrels, lemmings, shrews, and hamsters.
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test animal
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cats (related)
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gerbil (related)
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rat (related)
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subject
A particular area of study.
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case
(Grammar, uncountable) Grammatical cases and their meanings taken either as a topic in general or within a specific language.
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chinchilla (related)
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puppy (related)
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ferret (related)
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cat (related)
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kitten (related)
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IgG2b (related)
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rattie (related)
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rabbit (related)
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experimental animal
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lab animal
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test subject
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testee
(Colloquial) Someone who is tested or examined.
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victim
The definition of a victim is a person who has had something bad happen to him.
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Cavia cobaya
stout-bodied nearly tailless domesticated cavy; often kept as a pet and widely used in research
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  • Although the guinea-pig is a fertile breeder, the wild species only produce one or two young at a birth, and this but once in a year.

  • When an albino mouse, rat, guinea-pig or rabbit is crossed with either a pure self or pure pied-coloured form, the offspring are similar to, though not always exactly like, the coloured parent; provided, of course, that the albino is pure and is not carrying some colour or pattern determinant which is dominant to that of the coloured parent used.

  • They include several species widely distributed throughout South America, extending even to the straits of Magellan, from one of which (C. cutleri of Peru) the guinea-pig is derived.

  • The teats vary in number from a single abdominal pair in the guinea-pig to six thoracico-abdominal pairs in the rats; while in the Octodontidae and Capromyidae they are placed high up on the sides of the body.

  • Thus the serum of the white rat, which is immune to anthrax, kills the bacillus; whereas the serum of the guinea-pig, which is susceptible, has no such effect.

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