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guinea pig wordnet sense
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guinea pigs, plural;
  1. A domesticated, tailless South American cavy, originally raised for food. It no longer occurs in the wild and is now typically kept as a pet or for laboratory research

  2. A person or thing used as a subject for experiment

  1. subject: 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"
  2. stout-bodied nearly tailless domesticated cavy; often kept as a pet and widely used in research
  3. The guinea pig (Cavia porcellus), also commonly called the cavy, is a species of rodent belonging to the family Caviidae and the genus Cavia. Despite their common name, these animals are not pigs, nor do they come from Guinea. ...
  4. Ryan Stock is a Canadian based TV stunt man from Edmonton, Alberta with a show on the Discovery Channel called "Guinea Pig". ...
  5. The Guinea Pig is a 3 Act play by Warren Chetham-Strode. The work premiered on London's West End at the Criterion Theatre in 1946 and starred Rachel Gurney as Lynne Hartley. An immense success, the play was soon adapted into a 1948 film starring Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim.
  6. The Guinea Pig is a 1948 British film by Pilgrim Pictures, also known as The Outsider in the United States. The film is adapted from the 1946 play of the same name by Warren Chetham-Strode.
  7. The Guinea Pig is a 1929 comedy in three acts by Preston Sturges, his first play to appear on Broadway.
  8. A tailless rodent of the Cavia genus, with short ears and larger than a hamster; the species Cavia porcellus is often kept as a pet; A living experimental subject
  9. refers to a person who goes out to test if the wind is rideable or not. If it is, others start riding too. Also known as a Wind-dummy.
  10. This rodent has been used in scientific research for many decades. Thus, if you are called a “guinea-pig” it means you’re taking part, often unwittingly, in some type of testing or experiment.
  11. [JP 1-02] (DoD, NATO) In naval mine warfare, a ship used to determine whether an area can be considered safe from mines under certain conditions, or, specifically, to detonate pressure mines.
  12. The unofficial mascot of MHH for the last half of the 2011 season.
  13. 1.Cavia porcellus, also known as Cavia cobaya, a plump rodent native to South America brought to Europe by the Spanish conquistadors. Often kept as pets. And once very widely used aa a laboratory animal for research. 2.By extension, someone (or something) used as a subject of experimentation. ...
  14. an unattached, or roving person whose fee was usally a guinea
  15. is part of a series on TV & Movies