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Cavy

noun

(pl. cavies)

Short-tailed rough-haired South American rodent.

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"Cavy" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Pampas of South America the skeletons of Megatherium, Megalonyx, Glyptodon, Mylodon, Toxodon, Macrauchenia, and other extinct forms, are analogous to the living sloth, armadillo, cavy, capybara, and llama. The fossil quadrumana, also associated with some of these forms in the Brazilian caves, belong to the Platyrrhine family of monkeys, now peculiar to South America. That the extinct fauna of Buenos ...

— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell

Words linked to "Cavy" : gnawer, rodent, wild cavy, Cavia cobaya, aperea, Cavia, guinea pig, Cavia porcellus, genus Cavia