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Definition of guinea pig in English: guinea pignounˈɡɪni pɪɡˈɡɪni ˌpɪɡ 1A tailless South American rodent of the cavy family. Originally raised for food, it no longer occurs in the wild and is now typically kept as a pet or for laboratory research. 豚鼠，天竺鼠 Cavia porcellus, family Caviidae Example sentencesExamples - There is no way on earth that, if PK gets mice (or hamsters, or a guinea pig, or a rabbit) that the cat is not going to end up making very short work of the thing.
- Yes, she did, but it was not a guinea pig, it was a cat.
- There was an uncleaned guinea pig cage in the corner, with a sleeping guinea pig living in its own filth.
- It is an advantage that Joanne will depend on, to pursue her career choice, when she is exiled from her father's laboratory for showing compassion by releasing a caged guinea pig.
- Closer in appearance to the guinea pig than the reviled rat, the mammal likely fed on sea grass in ancient lagoons near the northwestern Venezuelan coast.
- Individual wild guinea pigs and California ground squirrels spend more time alert when foraging far from shrub or tree cover.
- The domestic guinea pig, Cavia porcellus, now found worldwide in captivity, has been bred for meat for more than three thousand years in South America.
- It seems that not all rodents in those days were cute little balls of fur like your daughter's guinea pig.
- We take English for granted, but if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
- As the water rose, the guinea pig rose too, although it ordinarily doesn't stand around on its hind legs, but rather squats like a hare or a rabbit.
- They were followed by a guinea pig, a hedgehog, a manatee, and a whale, which are considered to be the core member species of the mammalian radiation.
- Hamsters, gerbils and guinea pigs were more represented amongst the under-11 owners.
- The animals, a meerkat and a guinea pig, cannot bear to be apart from each other and whine uncontrollably when they are parted.
- We have two kids (boy and girl, ages 10 and 12), a dog, a guinea pig, and a South African claw-toed frog.
- And even though the guinea pig was ten times the size of a normal guinea pig, it accepted the carrot hungrily and walked off happily.
- In addition we are raising eight sheep, a llama, a dog, two rabbits, a rat, and a guinea pig.
- Most people are familiar with mice, rats, hamsters, and guinea pigs, which are commonly kept as pets.
- The collection of paintings include performing horses, elephants, sheep, hyenas, snakes, birds and a guinea pig.
- At school, our classroom had a small rodent zoo consisting of two rabbits, three hamsters, a litter of baby gerbils and a guinea pig.
- A major debate was raised by the claim that ‘the guinea pig is not a rodent’.
2A person or thing used as a subject for experiment. 供实验的人（或物），实验品 we were used as guinea pigs to test the effects of radiation on human beings the school is a guinea pig for the national initiative Example sentencesExamples - The way I was planning this spiritual experiment, I would have been the sole guinea pig.
- No community in America deserves to be the guinea pig for social experimentation in the care and feeding of violent sex criminals.
- He made an experiment using his body as the guinea pig.
- The worst was when you became a guinea pig for a hazardous experiment, and not even the lightest punishment was endurable.
- A cancer sufferer from Greater Manchester, for whom all conventional treatments have failed, has volunteered to become the world's first guinea pig for a possible new cure.
- The early study of carbon dioxide also gave rise to the expression to be a guinea pig, meaning to subject oneself to an experiment.
- I'm going to be a guinea pig in a kind of experiment, he tells me.
- After all, we do not want to use ‘real-life’ pupils as guinea pigs for educational experiments.
- But the guinea pigs in this experiment are human beings.
- To find out how it worked, my husband David, a senior manager of an internet company, volunteered to be the guinea pig for Just the Job.
- Soldiers, as if they don't have enough to worry about, are often the guinea pigs for military experiments.
- Many works depict the artists themselves as guinea pigs undergoing experiments such as hypnosis.
- The Dutch government is volunteering as a guinea pig.
- I decided to conduct an experiment, as both scientist and guinea pig.
- Meanwhile Fiona patiently served time as his food-tasting guinea pig and joined him on rare holidays to France to sample that nation's culinary secrets.
- Nicaragua has been a hapless guinea pig for a neo-liberal and neo-conservative experiment - if one can call it that.
- I feel as though our children are being used as guinea pigs for a scientific experiment.
- Walker volunteered to act as a human guinea pig for these experiments, as did 400m runner Mark Richardson and one other athlete.
- Were HIV-positive infants and children in the Manhattan foster care system used as guinea pigs in medical experiments?
- Lucy was beginning to feel like a guinea pig for a scientific experiment.
Synonyms subject, participant, case, client, patient
OriginMid 17th century: from Guinea + pig; the term Guinea was probably a designation for an unknown distant country. Use in guinea pig (sense 2) arose in the 1920s in reference to the animal's use in laboratory research. Definition of guinea pig in US English: guinea pignounˈɡinē ˌpiɡˈɡɪni ˌpɪɡ 1A tailless South American rodent of the cavy family. Originally raised for food, it no longer occurs in the wild and is now typically kept as a pet or for laboratory research. 豚鼠，天竺鼠 Cavia porcellus, family Caviidae Example sentencesExamples - The collection of paintings include performing horses, elephants, sheep, hyenas, snakes, birds and a guinea pig.
- We take English for granted, but if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
- As the water rose, the guinea pig rose too, although it ordinarily doesn't stand around on its hind legs, but rather squats like a hare or a rabbit.
- There was an uncleaned guinea pig cage in the corner, with a sleeping guinea pig living in its own filth.
- Individual wild guinea pigs and California ground squirrels spend more time alert when foraging far from shrub or tree cover.
- In addition we are raising eight sheep, a llama, a dog, two rabbits, a rat, and a guinea pig.
- Hamsters, gerbils and guinea pigs were more represented amongst the under-11 owners.
- The domestic guinea pig, Cavia porcellus, now found worldwide in captivity, has been bred for meat for more than three thousand years in South America.
- We have two kids (boy and girl, ages 10 and 12), a dog, a guinea pig, and a South African claw-toed frog.
- And even though the guinea pig was ten times the size of a normal guinea pig, it accepted the carrot hungrily and walked off happily.
- A major debate was raised by the claim that ‘the guinea pig is not a rodent’.
- It is an advantage that Joanne will depend on, to pursue her career choice, when she is exiled from her father's laboratory for showing compassion by releasing a caged guinea pig.
- Yes, she did, but it was not a guinea pig, it was a cat.
- The animals, a meerkat and a guinea pig, cannot bear to be apart from each other and whine uncontrollably when they are parted.
- They were followed by a guinea pig, a hedgehog, a manatee, and a whale, which are considered to be the core member species of the mammalian radiation.
- Closer in appearance to the guinea pig than the reviled rat, the mammal likely fed on sea grass in ancient lagoons near the northwestern Venezuelan coast.
- At school, our classroom had a small rodent zoo consisting of two rabbits, three hamsters, a litter of baby gerbils and a guinea pig.
- There is no way on earth that, if PK gets mice (or hamsters, or a guinea pig, or a rabbit) that the cat is not going to end up making very short work of the thing.
- It seems that not all rodents in those days were cute little balls of fur like your daughter's guinea pig.
- Most people are familiar with mice, rats, hamsters, and guinea pigs, which are commonly kept as pets.
2A person or thing used as a subject for experiment. 供实验的人（或物），实验品 we were used as guinea pigs to test the effects of radiation on human beings the school is a guinea pig for the national initiative Example sentencesExamples - Walker volunteered to act as a human guinea pig for these experiments, as did 400m runner Mark Richardson and one other athlete.
- Nicaragua has been a hapless guinea pig for a neo-liberal and neo-conservative experiment - if one can call it that.
- But the guinea pigs in this experiment are human beings.
- Many works depict the artists themselves as guinea pigs undergoing experiments such as hypnosis.
- After all, we do not want to use ‘real-life’ pupils as guinea pigs for educational experiments.
- The worst was when you became a guinea pig for a hazardous experiment, and not even the lightest punishment was endurable.
- Meanwhile Fiona patiently served time as his food-tasting guinea pig and joined him on rare holidays to France to sample that nation's culinary secrets.
- Were HIV-positive infants and children in the Manhattan foster care system used as guinea pigs in medical experiments?
- I decided to conduct an experiment, as both scientist and guinea pig.
- Soldiers, as if they don't have enough to worry about, are often the guinea pigs for military experiments.
- No community in America deserves to be the guinea pig for social experimentation in the care and feeding of violent sex criminals.
- I'm going to be a guinea pig in a kind of experiment, he tells me.
- The way I was planning this spiritual experiment, I would have been the sole guinea pig.
- The early study of carbon dioxide also gave rise to the expression to be a guinea pig, meaning to subject oneself to an experiment.
- He made an experiment using his body as the guinea pig.
- The Dutch government is volunteering as a guinea pig.
- I feel as though our children are being used as guinea pigs for a scientific experiment.
- Lucy was beginning to feel like a guinea pig for a scientific experiment.
- A cancer sufferer from Greater Manchester, for whom all conventional treatments have failed, has volunteered to become the world's first guinea pig for a possible new cure.
- To find out how it worked, my husband David, a senior manager of an internet company, volunteered to be the guinea pig for Just the Job.
Synonyms subject, participant, case, client, patient
OriginMid 17th century: from Guinea + pig; the term Guinea was probably a designation for an unknown distant country. Use in guinea pig (sense 2) arose in the 1920s in reference to the animal's use in laboratory research. |