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Cuniculus

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Noun1.Cuniculus - pacas
genus Cuniculus
mammal genus - a genus of mammals
Dasyproctidae, family Dasyproctidae - agoutis and pacas
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Our pet rabbits today are related to the European rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus and have been domesticated since Roman times, when their food value was appreciated.
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Rabbit haemorrhagic disease and the biological control of wild rabbits, Oryctolagus cuniculus, in Australia and New Zealand.
Australia after rabbits by Davidson, Steve / Ecos
Paul Barolsky pointed out that the Latin for rabbit, cuniculus, was often used in the Renaissance to pun on the female pudenda, cunnus, and he suggested that the proximity of the rabbit to the pudenda of Venus in Piero's painting is a similar reference.
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