[てんじくねずみ, tenjikunezumi] (n) (uk) (See モルモット) guinea pig (any of five guinea pig species, esp. Cavia porcellus) [Add to Longdo]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Guinea pig \Guin"ea pig`\ [Prob. a mistake for Guiana pig.]
1. (Zool.) A small Brazilian rodent ({Cavia porcellus} or
{Cavia cobaya}), about seven inches in length and usually
of a white color, with spots of orange and black. Called
also {cavy}. It is the domesticated form of the wild cavy,
often kept as a pet and used commonly as an experimental
animal in laboratory research.
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
2. Hence, [figuratively]: Any animal or person used in an
experiment; -- also applied to people who are unwillingly
or unknowingly subjected by authorities to policies or
procedures which might cause bodily or mental harm.
[PJC]
3. A contemptuous sobriquet. [Obs.] --Smollett
[Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
guinea pig
n 1: 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" [syn: {subject}, {case},
{guinea pig}]
2: stout-bodied nearly tailless domesticated cavy; often kept as
a pet and widely used in research [syn: {guinea pig}, {Cavia
cobaya}]
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