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单词 guinea pig
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
guin•ea pig /ˈgɪni ˌpɪg/USA pronunciation  n. [countable]
  1. Mammalsa small, mildly fat, furry animal without a tail, raised as a pet and for use in laboratories.
  2. Informal Termsthe subject of any sort of test or experiment.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
guin′ea pig′, 
    1. Mammalsa short-eared, tailless rodent of the genus Cavia, usually white, black, and tawny, commonly regarded as the domesticated form of one of the South American wild species of cavy: often used in scientific experiments or kept as a pet.
    2. Informal Termsthe subject of any sort of experiment.
    • 1655–65

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
guinea pig n
  1. 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
Etymology: 17th Century: origin uncertain: perhaps from old use of the name Guinea to mean any remote unknown land
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