What is the common name for a cavy?
"British Cavy Council The British Cavy Council is the governing body in the United Kingdom for national, regional, and local cavy (guinea pig) clubs, and also for the wide range of 'breed clubs' which exist on a national basis to further the interests of particular cavy breeds, and to provide a forum for those with an interest in the breed concerned. The Council is not itself a club or association - it is not possible, for example, to be a subscribing member, as it has only executive members. Most cavy 'fanciers' (people interested in breeding and showing purebred, or pedigree,"
"Cavefish Cavefish or cave fish is a generic term for fresh and brackish water fish adapted to life in caves and other underground habitats. Related terms are subterranean fish, troglomorphic fish, troglobitic fish, stygobitic fish, phreatic fish and hypogean fish. The more than 200 scientifically described species of obligate cavefish are found on all continents, except Antarctica. Although widespread as a group, many cavefish species have very small ranges and are seriously threatened. Cavefish are members of a wide range of families and do not form a monophyletic group. Typical adaptations found in cavefish are reduced eyes and pigmentation. Many"
"have been bred in captivity, typically by scientists. Cavefish Cavefish or cave fish is a generic term for fresh and brackish water fish adapted to life in caves and other underground habitats. Related terms are subterranean fish, troglomorphic fish, troglobitic fish, stygobitic fish, phreatic fish and hypogean fish. The more than 200 scientifically described species of obligate cavefish are found on all continents, except Antarctica. Although widespread as a group, many cavefish species have very small ranges and are seriously threatened. Cavefish are members of a wide range of families and do not form a monophyletic group. Typical adaptations found"
"Cavia Cavia is a genus in the subfamily Caviinae that contains the rodents commonly known as guinea pigs or cavies. The best-known species in this genus is the domestic guinea pig, ""Cavia porcellus"", an important meat animal in South America and a common household pet outside South America. ""Cavia"" is classified in order Rodentia, although there was once a minority belief in the scientific community that evidence from mitochondrial DNA and proteins suggested the Hystricognathi might belong to a different evolutionary offshoot, and therefore a different order. If this had been so, it would have been an example of convergent"
"known as a ""poddy"" or ""poddy-calf"" in British English. ""Bobby calves"" are young calves which are to be slaughtered for human consumption. A ""vealer"" is a fat calf weighing less than about which is at about eight to nine months of age. A young female calf from birth until she has had a calf of her own is called a ""heifer"" (). In the American Old West, a motherless or small, runty calf was sometimes referred to as a ""dogie,"" (pronounced with a long ""o""). The term ""calf"" is also used for some other species. See ""Other animals"" below. Calves"
"the wild. Wild cavies are found on grassy plains and occupy an ecological niche similar to that of cattle. They are social, living in the wild in small groups that consist of several females (sows), a male (boar), and the young (which, in a break with the preceding porcine nomenclature, are called ""pups"" not ""piglets""). They move together in groups (herds) eating grass or other vegetation, and do not store food. While they do not burrow themselves or build nests, they frequently seek shelter in the burrows of other animals, as well as in crevices and tunnels formed by vegetation."
"Cavetto A cavetto is a concave moulding with a regular curved profile that is part of a circle, widely used in architecture as well as furniture, picture frames, metalwork and other decorative arts. In describing vessels and similar shapes in pottery, metalwork and related fields, ""cavetto"" may be used of a variety of concave curves running round objects. The word comes from Italian, as a diminutive of ""cave"", from the Latin for ""hollow"" (it is the same root as cave). A vernacular alternative is ""cove"", most often used where interior walls curve at the top to make a transition to"
"Davy also called the Divvy.) As in a north east miner saying 'Marra, ye keep way from me if ye usin a divvy.' It seems the word divvie then translated to daft lad/lass. Perhaps coming from the fact one would be seen as foolish going down a mine with a Scotch Divvy when there are safer lamps available, like the Geordie, or the Davy. The Geordie word ""netty"", meaning a toilet and place of need and necessity for relief or bathroom, has an uncertain origin, though some have theorised that it may come from slang used by Roman soldiers on"
"Ovula ovum Ovula ovum, common name the common egg cowrie, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries. The shells of these quite common cowries reach on average of length, with a minimum size of and a maximum size of . They are egg-shaped (hence the Latin name ""ovum"", meaning egg). The surface of the shell is smooth, shiny and completely snow white, with a dark reddish-purple interior, visible through the wide and long aperture, which bears teeth on one side only. In the living cowries the"
"Caviinae Caviinae is a subfamily uniting all living members of the family Caviidae with the exception of the maras, capybaras, and ""Kerodon"". The subfamily traditionally contained the guinea pig or cavy-like forms along with the cursorially adapted (running) ""Kerodon"". Molecular results suggest the Caviinae as so defined would be paraphyletic and ""Kerodon"" is more closely related to maras and capybaras than to other caviines. This led Woods and Kilpatrick (2005) to unite ""Kerodon"" and capybaras into the subfamily Hydrochoerinae within the Caviidae. These studies also suggest ""Microcavia"" and ""Cavia"" are more closely related to one another than either is to"
"Caviidae Caviidae, the cavy family, is composed of rodents native to South America and includes the domestic guinea pig, wild cavies, and the largest living rodent, the capybara. They are found across South America in open areas from moist savanna to thorn forests or scrub desert. This family of rodents has fewer members than most other rodent families, with 19 species in 6 genera in 3 subfamilies. With the exception of the maras, which have a more rabbit-like appearance, caviids have short, heavy bodies and large heads. Most have no visible tails. They range in size from the smaller cavies"
"used in relation to items designed for or suitable for use by chavs. Opinion is divided on the origin of the term. ""Chav"" may have its origins in the Romani word ""chavi"", meaning ""child"". The word ""chavvy"" has existed since at least the 19th century; lexicographer Eric Partridge mentions it in his 1950 dictionary of slang and unconventional English, giving its date of origin as c. 1860. The word in its current pejorative usage is recorded by the ""Oxford English Dictionary"" as first used in a Usenet forum in 1998 and first used in a newspaper in 2002. By 2005"
"Market. Common yabby The common yabby (""Cherax destructor"") is an Australian freshwater crustacean in the Parastacidae family. It is listed as a vulnerable species of crayfish by the World Conservation Union (IUCN), though the validity of this listing is questionable; wild yabby populations remain strong, and have expanded into new habitats created by reservoirs and farm dams. Other names frequently used for ""Cherax destructor"" include the blue yabby or cyan yabby. Its common name of ""yabby"" is also applied to many other Australian ""Cherax"" species of crustacean (as well as to marine ghost shrimp of the infraorder Thalassinidea). Yabbies occasionally"
"Cay A cay ( or ), also spelled caye or key, is a small, low-elevation, sandy island on the surface of a coral reef. Cays occur in tropical environments throughout the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans (including in the Caribbean and on the Great Barrier Reef and Belize Barrier Reef). The 1492 indigenous people of Bahamas were called ""Lucayan"", an Anglicization of the Spanish ""Lucayos"", derived in turn from the Taíno ""Lukku-Cairi"" (which the people used for themselves), meaning ""people of the islands"". The Taíno word for ""island"", ""cairi"", became ""cayo"" in Spanish and ""cay"" in English (spelled ""key"" in"
"in the 19th and 20th centuries that the epithet ""guinea pig"" came into use to describe a human test subject. Since that time, they have been largely replaced by other rodents such as mice and rats. However, they are still used in research, primarily as models for human medical conditions such as juvenile diabetes, tuberculosis, scurvy (like humans, they must get vitamin C), and pregnancy complications. The scientific name of the common species is ""Cavia porcellus"", with """" being Latin for ""little pig"". ""Cavia"" is New Latin; it is derived from ""cabiai"", the animal's name in the language of the"
"Cabbie claw Cabbie claw or Cabelew is a traditional dish from the northeast of Scotland and Orkney. It is traditionally made using speldings, young fish of the ""Gadidae"" family, such as Cod, Haddock or Whiting. The name is a derivative of ""cabillaud"", the French name for Cod. The dish of cod served in white sauce with chopped egg white in it. To make it, the cod is cleaned, then rubbed with salt inside and out, then hung outside to dry in the wind for 24 to 48 hours. The cod is then simmered for about half an hour in enough"
"Rock cavy The rock cavy or mocó (""Kerodon rupestris"") is a cavy species endemic to eastern Brazil, from eastern Piauí state to Minas Gerais state. It has been introduced to the oceanic island of Fernando de Noronha. The rock cavy is a fairly large rodent weighing up to , and like other species of cavies the tail is vestigial or absent. The dorsum is grey and the venter light brown. They are hystricomorphs, which means they have porcupine-like jaw muscles. The rock cavy belongs to the order Rodentia and the family Caviidae. This group has two subfamilies: Dolichotinae and Caviinae."
"Cave swallow The cave swallow (""Petrochelidon fulva"") is a medium-sized, squarish tailed swallow belonging to the same genus as the more familiar and widespread cliff swallow of North America. The cave swallow, also native to the Americas, nests and roosts primarily in caves and sinkholes. Cave swallows are found in Mexico and the Greater Antilles, with fall and winter vagrants reaching the east and Gulf Coasts of the U.S. Breeding colonies occur in south-eastern New Mexico, Texas, Florida, the Greater Antilles, portions of southern Mexico, and along the west coast of South America. Five subspecies are currently recognized according to"
"Kiwaidae Kiwa is a genus of marine decapods living at deep-sea hydrothermal vents and cold seeps. The animals are commonly referred to as ""yeti lobsters"" or ""yeti crabs"", after the legendary yeti, because of their ""hairy"" or bristly appearance. The genus is placed in its own family, Kiwaidae, in the superfamily Chirostyloidea. Four species have been described: ""Kiwa hirsuta"" discovered in 2005 on the Pacific-Antarctic Ridge, ""Kiwa puravida"" discovered in 2006 at cold seeps in the East Pacific (all other species are from hydrothermal vents), ""Kiwa tyleri"", known colloquially as the ""Hoff crab"", from the East Scotia Ridge, and ""Kiwa"
"Common yabby The common yabby (""Cherax destructor"") is an Australian freshwater crustacean in the Parastacidae family. It is listed as a vulnerable species of crayfish by the World Conservation Union (IUCN), though the validity of this listing is questionable; wild yabby populations remain strong, and have expanded into new habitats created by reservoirs and farm dams. Other names frequently used for ""Cherax destructor"" include the blue yabby or cyan yabby. Its common name of ""yabby"" is also applied to many other Australian ""Cherax"" species of crustacean (as well as to marine ghost shrimp of the infraorder Thalassinidea). Yabbies occasionally reach"
"Cove A cove is a small type of bay or coastal inlet. Coves usually have narrow, restricted entrances, are often circular or oval, and are often situated within a larger bay. Small, narrow, sheltered bays, inlets, creeks, or recesses in a coast are often considered coves. Colloquially, the term can be used to describe a sheltered bay. Geomorphology describes coves as precipitously-walled and rounded cirque-like openings as in a valley extending into or down a mountainside, or in a hollow or nook of a cliff or steep mountainside. A cove can also refer to a corner, nook, or cranny, either"
"Caviar Caviar (less often, caviare) is a delicacy consisting of salt-cured roe of the Acipenseridae family. The roe can be ""fresh"" (non-pasteurized) or pasteurized, with pasteurization reducing its culinary and economic value. Traditionally, the term ""caviar"" refers only to roe from wild sturgeon in the Caspian Sea and Black Sea (Beluga, Ossetra and Sevruga caviars). Depending on the country, ""caviar"" may also be used to describe the roe of other fish such as salmon, steelhead, trout, lumpfish, whitefish, carp, and other species of sturgeon. Caviar is considered a delicacy and is eaten as a garnish or a spread. According to"
"""Galea"". Caviinae Caviinae is a subfamily uniting all living members of the family Caviidae with the exception of the maras, capybaras, and ""Kerodon"". The subfamily traditionally contained the guinea pig or cavy-like forms along with the cursorially adapted (running) ""Kerodon"". Molecular results suggest the Caviinae as so defined would be paraphyletic and ""Kerodon"" is more closely related to maras and capybaras than to other caviines. This led Woods and Kilpatrick (2005) to unite ""Kerodon"" and capybaras into the subfamily Hydrochoerinae within the Caviidae. These studies also suggest ""Microcavia"" and ""Cavia"" are more closely related to one another than either is"
"In addition to other bovid species (such as bison, yak and water buffalo), these include the young of camels, dolphins, elephants, giraffes, hippopotamuses, larger deer (such as moose, elk (wapiti) and red deer), rhinoceroses, porpoises, whales, walruses and larger seals. However, common domestic species tend to have their own specific names, such as foal and lamb. Calf A calf (plural, calves) is the young of domestic cattle. Calves are reared to become adult cattle, or are slaughtered for their meat, called veal, and for their calfskin. The term ""calf"" is also used for some other species. See ""Other animals"" below."
"Common wood pigeon The common wood pigeon (""Columba palumbus"") is a large species in the dove and pigeon family. It belongs to the genus ""Columba"" and, like all pigeons and doves, belongs to the family Columbidae. It is locally known in southeast England as the ""culver""; This name has given rise to several areas known for keeping pigeons to be named after it, such as Culver Down. The genus name ""Columba"" is the Latin word meaning ""pigeon, dove"", whose older etymology comes from the Ancient Greek κόλυμβος (""kolumbos""), ""a diver"", from ""κολυμβάω"" (kolumbao), ""dive, plunge headlong, swim"". Aristophanes (Birds, 304)"
"protected areas that these animals reside in. Rock cavy The rock cavy or mocó (""Kerodon rupestris"") is a cavy species endemic to eastern Brazil, from eastern Piauí state to Minas Gerais state. It has been introduced to the oceanic island of Fernando de Noronha. The rock cavy is a fairly large rodent weighing up to , and like other species of cavies the tail is vestigial or absent. The dorsum is grey and the venter light brown. They are hystricomorphs, which means they have porcupine-like jaw muscles. The rock cavy belongs to the order Rodentia and the family Caviidae. This"
"Caboose (ship's galley) Caboose (also ""camboose, coboose, cubboos"" derived from the Dutch ""kombuis"") is a term used for a small ship's kitchen, i.e. galley, located on an open deck. At one time a ""caboose"" related to a smaller kitchen aboard a merchantman, while aboard a warship it was called a ""galley"". William Falconer's 1780 ""A Universal Dictionary of the Marine"" describes a caboose thus: ""a sort of box or house to cover the chimney of some merchant-ships. It somewhat resembles a sentry-box, and generally stands against the barricade on the fore part of the quarter-deck"". Sometimes the caboose was portable."
"Cowry Cowry or cowrie, plural cowries, is the common name for a group of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. The term ""porcelain"" derives from the old Italian term for the cowrie shell (""porcellana"") due to their similar appearance. Shells of certain species have historically been used as currency in several parts of the world, as well as being used, in the past and present, very extensively in jewelry, and for other decorative and ceremonial purposes. The cowry was the shell most widely used worldwide as shell money. It is most abundant"
"word ""cava"" (masculine, plural ""caves"") means ""cave"" or ""cellar"". Caves were used in the early days of cava production for the preservation or aging of wine. Catalan winemakers officially adopted the term in 1970 to distinguish their product from French champagne. Catalan sparkling wine was first made as early as 1851, although the roots of the cava industry can be traced back to Josep Raventós's travels through Europe in the 1860s, where he was promoting the still wines of the Codorníu Winery. His visits to Champagne sparked an interest in the potential of a Spanish wine made using the same"
"""Ovula ovum"" lives in tropical reef in shallow waters at of depth, usually on algae or soft corals, mainly feeding on Alcyonarian colonies (Leather Coral, genus ""Sarcophyton"" and ""Sinularia"" sp., Alcyoniidae). Ovula ovum Ovula ovum, common name the common egg cowrie, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Ovulidae, the ovulids, cowry allies or false cowries. The shells of these quite common cowries reach on average of length, with a minimum size of and a maximum size of . They are egg-shaped (hence the Latin name ""ovum"", meaning egg). The surface of the shell"
"used as near-shore fishing boats. Cuddy (cabin) A cuddy is a small room or cupboard, particularly on a boat. Sometimes a cuddy refers to a small but cosy hut. The origin of the term is not clear. Cuddy was in use in colonial America as early as 1655. The term may derive from the Dutch ""kajuit"", meaning a small cabin, or from the French ""cahute"", meaning a hut. The term cuddy is used particularly in nautical contexts. In the 19th century it referred to a saloon cabin at the stern of immigrant ships, where wealthy immigrants could travel in greater"
"Cuddy (cabin) A cuddy is a small room or cupboard, particularly on a boat. Sometimes a cuddy refers to a small but cosy hut. The origin of the term is not clear. Cuddy was in use in colonial America as early as 1655. The term may derive from the Dutch ""kajuit"", meaning a small cabin, or from the French ""cahute"", meaning a hut. The term cuddy is used particularly in nautical contexts. In the 19th century it referred to a saloon cabin at the stern of immigrant ships, where wealthy immigrants could travel in greater comfort than the steerage passengers"
"Corvin The name Corvin comes from the Latin name Corvinus which derives from the Latin word corvus meaning raven, although the word today refers to the birds' genus including ravens and crows among others. Corvin most commonly is a surname, but it and its variations are being used as a given name as well. As a surname it can refer to: and others. As a given name its most common variations are Corvan, Korvin and Korwin and their English equivalent Raven. There is also a Corvin River. Hundreds of streets, schools, museums, hotels, etc. are named after King Matthias Corvinus"