Definitions for guinea-pig

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guinea-pig guinea pig

Guinea-Pig is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 170 anagrams from letters in guinea-pig (-aeggiinpu).

Definitions for guinea-pig

noun

1. a 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. the subject of any sort of experiment.

Origin of guinea-pig

First recorded in 1655-65

Examples for guinea-pig

This guinea pig's name was Jeff, and he and I became good friends.

To be a guinea pig for some bug they wanted to learn how to kill cheaply and easily?

He didn't add that he was also a subject, observer and guinea pig in one.

A guinea pig, a guinea pig, a guinea pig, howled the student of heredity.

And they tried to get at Tom—but the guinea pig stood in the way.

Closely related to the guinea pig and weighing in between 77 and 150 pounds, these creatures are the largest rodents in the world.

And when he came the Mayor asked him what he called his guinea pig.

Do you believe there was a guinea pig killed in that cottage?

"A guinea pig, like all the others including us," his wife said.

Why has the guinea pig teeth that are shed before it is born?