Cavia

== Translingual == === Etymology === From obsolete Portuguese çavia (“the spiny rat, Makalata armate, Echimys armata”) (> modern sauiá), from Old Tupi saujá. Compare Quechua quwi. === Proper noun === Cavia f A taxonomic genus within the family Caviidae – true guinea pigs. ==== Hypernyms ==== (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – subclass; Eutheria/Placentalia – infraclass; Rodentia – order; Hystricomorpha – suborder; Hystricognathi – infraorder; Caviomorpha – infraorder; Caviidae – family; Caviinae - subfamily ==== Hyponyms ==== (genus): Cavia anolaimae, Cavia aperea, Cavia fulgida, Cavia guianae, Cavia intermedia, Cavia magna, Cavia nana, Cavia porcellus, Cavia tschudii (species) ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== → Arabic: كَابِيَاء (kābiyāʔ) → Dutch: cavia → Afrikaans: cavia → West Frisian: kavia → English: cavia → Esperanto: kavio → French: cavia → Hebrew: קַבְיָה (kábiya) → Italian: cavia → Polish: kawia → Russian: ка́вия (kávija) → Spanish: cavia (partially) → Ukrainian: ка́вія (kávija) === Further reading === Cavia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Cavia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Cavia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons