Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A name of the guinea-pig or domestic cavy, Cavia cobaya. Also
cobaia .
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Hitherto docile and kind, as is the nature of the _Cavia cobaya_, vulgarly called guinea pig, this evening Ribot became as you have seen him.
The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton Wardon Allan Curtis 1903
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