cavia porcellus

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   South American cavy; possibly ancestral to the domestic guinea pig

   Synonymsapereawild cavy

   Broadercavy

Questions about cavia porcellus

What does cavia porcellus mean?

cavia porcellus means "South American cavy; possibly ancestral to the domestic guinea pig".

What is another word for cavia porcellus?

Close synonyms include aperea, wild cavy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cavia porcellus a common word?

cavia porcellus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.