Medical Dictionary

guinea pig

noun guin·ea pig \ˈgin-ē-ˌ\

Medical Definition of GUINEA PIG

:  a small stout-bodied short-eared nearly tailless domesticated rodent of the genus Cavia (C. cobaya) often kept as a pet and widely used in biological research—called also cavy

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