Short-haired guinea pigs

guinea pig

1. Any of various small, short-eared domesticated rodents of the genus Cavia, having variously colored hair and no visible tail. They are widely kept as pets and often used as experimental animals.

2. Informal A person who is used as a subject for experimentation or research.

[Perhaps alteration (influenced by Guinea, used as a name for any faraway unknown country) of Guiana.]

guinea pig

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a domesticated cavy, probably descended from Cavia porcellus, commonly kept as a pet and used in scientific experiments

2. a person or thing used for experimentation

[origin uncertain: perhaps from old use of the name Guinea to mean any remote unknown land]

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Noun	1.	guinea pig - a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures; someone who is an object of investigation; "the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly"; "the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities" subject, case individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
	2.	guinea pig - stout-bodied nearly tailless domesticated cavy; often kept as a pet and widely used in research Cavia cobaya cavy - short-tailed rough-haired South American rodent

Translations

guinea pig n → porcellino d'India, cavia (fig) → cavia

guinea pig → حقل للتجارب, خنزير غينيا morče, pokusný králík forsøgskanin, marsvin Meerschweinchen, Versuchskaninchen ινδικό χοιρίδιο, πειραματόζωο cobaya, conejillo de indias koekaniini, marsu cobaye, cochon d’Inde pokusni kunić, zamorac cavia, criceto モルモット, 実験台 기니피그, 피험자 cavia, proefkonijn forsøkskanin, marsvin królik doświadczalny, świnka morska cobaia, porquinho-da-Índia морская свинка, подопытный кролик försökskanin, marsvin หนูตะเภา, หนูตะเภาสำหรับทดลอง kobay, kobay faresi chuột lang, vật thí nghiệm 实验品, 豚鼠

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Abyssinian guinea pig
Aperea
Cavia
Cavia cobaya
Caviidae
cavy
Dutch guinea pig
English self
family Caviidae
genus Cavia
Guinea
guinea-pig
Himalayan guinea pig
Hystricomorpha
Moco
order Rodentia
rodent
Rodentia
subject

For short-haired guinea pigs, you need to purchase a small brush and then use it on their hair at least once a week.

Grooming Guinea Pigs by Florian Ross / Pets and Animals community

Short-Day Photorefractoriness
Short-day plant
short-day response
short-delay blasting
short-delay detonator
short-distance navigation
Short-Duration Dithranol Therapy
Short-eared
Short-eared Owl
short-eared owls
Short-Fault Protection
Short-Fiber-Reinforced Rubber
Short-Finned Squid
Short-Form McGill Pain Questionnaire
Short-Form Registration
Short-Form Registrations
short-gate gain
Short-Grain Brown Rice
short-grained
short-grained
short-grass
Short-Grass Prairie Population
Short-Grass Stepp
Short-gut syndrome
short-haired

Short-haired guinea pigs

short-handed
short-handed
Short-handed goal
Short-Handed Goals
Short-Handed Points
short-handled
short-haul
short-haul
Short-Haul Civil Tiltrotor
short-haul convoy
short-haul modem
short-head
short-headed
Short-headed Broad-nosed Bat
short-heading
short-heads
Short-Hop Channel Allocation
Short-Hop, Fast-Fall, L
Short-Hop, Fast-Fall, L-Cancel
short-horned grasshopper
short-horned grasshopper
short-interest ratio
Short-jointed
Short-Latency Acoustic Evoked Potential
Short-latency Somatosensory Evoked Potential
short-leaf pine
short-leg cast

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