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What is a guinea pig?

What is a guinea pig? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A tailless rodent of the the family Caviidae and the genus Cavia genus, with short ears and larger than a hamster; the species Cavia porcellus is often kept as a pet.
  2. A rodent of any of several species within the family Caviidae.
  3. (figuratively) A living experimental subject.
  4. (dated, slang) A professional company director, without time or real qualifications for the duties.
  5. (obsolete) Term of contempt.
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To find out how it worked, my husband David, a senior manager of an internet company, volunteered to be the guinea pig for Just the Job.
Veterinarian Astrid Behr also recommends a bird as a pet rather than a guinea pig or other smaller animal.
It seems that not all rodents in those days were cute little balls of fur like your daughter's guinea pig.
The collection of paintings include performing horses, elephants, sheep, hyenas, snakes, birds and a guinea pig.
The dorsal psalterium of the guinea pig was electrophysiologically studied with a view to possible commissural fiber groups and their properties.
The animals, a meerkat and a guinea pig, cannot bear to be apart from each other and whine uncontrollably when they are parted.

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