cavy
noun
any of several short-tailed or tailless South American rodents of the family Caviidae, as the guinea pig, capybara, or agouti.
cavies
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pluralof cavy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Since taking over as zoo curator two years ago, Dr. Valitutto has brought in such animals as Patagonian cavies, a cassowary and a capybara, more than doubling the collection of animals, to 1,500.
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2014
“I will feed some to my baby cavies too!” she says.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 27, 2014
Then the mother cavy feeds her baby cavies.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 27, 2014
In one experiment, the kids were shown books that had realistic images of animals they weren’t familiar with – cavies, oxpeckers, and handfish – but the text that accompanied the drawings were very different.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 27, 2014
They are, at such times, strangely animated, dashing through clouds of smoke, feasting amongst the hot ashes on roasted cavies and other small mammals, and boldly pursuing the scorched fugitives from the flames.
From Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson
