Guinea Pig

Word GUINEA PIG
Character 10
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Definitions and meanings of "Guinea Pig"

What do we mean by guinea pig?

A tailless rodent of the family Caviidae and the genus Cavia, with short ears and larger than a hamster; the species Cavia porcellus is often kept as a pet.

A rodent of any of several species within the family Caviidae.

A living experimental subject.

A professional company director, without time or real qualifications for the duties.

A midshipman in the East India service; (by extension) a low-skilled or non-proficient seaman.

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The word "guinea-pig" in example sentences

A 2006 survey by NPIA showed that neo-fascists, militant animal-fur campaigners and body-snatching guinea-pig lovers were embarrassingly under-represented in our police service. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2009)

Abu Zubaydah was the first official guinea-pig for the unlawful interrogation techniques developed by the CIA for its 'high-value detainee' programme, including the "facial slap", "cramped confinement", "stress positions" and "the waterboard" (as outlined in this memo). ❋ Clara Gutteridge (2010)

She lay stiff on her side, stretched out, as if in her guinea-pig dream she had been running through grassland, open and close to the sky. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Veteran science writer Jennifer Ackerman took guinea-pig journalism to a mundane but potentially dangerous level in researching her new book, "Ah-choo!" ❋ Unknown (2010)

Trial schemes conducted over the past few years have treated voluntary, guinea-pig teens to residential retreats, where they worked on team building and community projects. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Meanwhile the guinea-pig group, which has just started year 6, is still drawing, painting, writing, working in the school's new animation club, and borrowing library books. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Me, my wife, my rabbit Bullet, and my guinea-pig Skunky are all voting Obama this year. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But something goes horribly wrong, when Seth uses himself as a guinea-pig in a matter transmission experiment, as he teleports himself, unaware his genes have been fused with a house fly that was trapped in the telepod with him. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It sits in a former guinea-pig barn on a farm the Department of Agriculture has been running in Maryland since 1936. ❋ Carl Zimmer (2009)

From encouraging movie fans to Ask ‘Where did guinea pigs get their name?’ to ‘How is a 3-D movie created?’ the homepage encourages education and exploration into all things guinea-pig and will remain active for two days to help kick off the opening weekend. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The book is framed by the author's account of his own guinea-pig experience. ❋ By Scott Gottlieb (2009)

Hook had participated in something of this process, the guinea-pig, the one who had taken the risks to see if the Project was viable. ❋ Blue Tyson (2007)

The Academy Award account is a great marketing tool for R.S. Owens, which got its start producing awards for pigeon races and guinea-pig competitions, and now -- through distributors and retail trophy shops -- supplies tokens of esteem to Fortune 100 companies, hospitals, the Chamber of Commerce and Boy S.out troops. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He defended a rabbit warren against rats, simply by the odor of a guinea-pig which he placed in it. ❋ Unknown (2008)

That makes even more remarkable the massive proportions of Goya, a prehistoric guinea-pig cousin whose skeleton was recently uncovered in South America by paleontologists from the University of Tubingen in Germany, the Francisco de Miranda National Experimental University in Venezuela and UCLA. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The guinea-pig has teeth which are shed before it is born, and hence can never subserve the masticatory purpose for which they seem contrived, and, in like manner, the female dugong has tusks which never cut the gum. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Their prep was based on fluorescence-studies, concluding in a computer-reconstruction (of the guinea-pig PC), albeit they have not proceeded (yet) to fractal modeling and on. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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