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Definition: Cavia |
CaviaNoun1. Type genus of the Caviidae: guinea pigs. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Cavia" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
"Cavia" is a common misspelling or typo for: cava, caveat, caviar, cavil. |
Synonym: CaviaSynonym: genus Cavia (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cavia |
| English words defined with "Cavia": Cavia cobaya, Cavia porcellus ♦ genus Cavia ♦ Moco. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Cavia": Guinea Pigs. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Cavia": Cavy. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Cavia" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Dutch (guinea-pig), Italian (cavy, guinea pig). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Regreso de los exploradores que llevaron mensaje a mariano de Cavia (1916) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| "Cavia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cavia" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "Cavia": Cavia aperea ♦ Cavia cobaya ♦ cavia porcellus ♦ Cavia rupestris ♦ genus Cavia. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cavia | 37 |
cavia porcellus | 4 |
cavia s | 3 |
cavia leeftijd | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Cavia": caviar, caviare, caviares, caviars. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-i-v" | |
-2 letters: ava, vac, via. | |
-3 letters: aa, ai. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-i-v" | |
+1 letter: atavic, caviar. | |
+2 letters: agravic, avarice, caviare, caviars, vaccina, vanadic, vatical, viatica. | |
+3 letters: activate, archival, avarices, avicular, calvaria, carnival, cavalier, cavatina, cavatine, caviares, cavitary, cavitate, galvanic, vacating, vacation, vaccinal, vaccinas, vaccinia, valencia, valiance, valiancy, vandalic, variance, viatical, vicarage, vicarate, vicarial, viscacha, vizcacha. | |
+4 letters: activated, activates, activator, advancing, atavistic, avocation, avoidance, cadaveric, calmative, calvarias, calvaries, calvarium, canvasing, captivate, carnivals, carnivora, causative, cavaletti, cavaliers, cavallies, cavalries, cavatinas, caveating, cavitated, cavitates, charivari, covariant, navicular, placative, vacancies, vacations, vaccinate, vaccinial, vaccinias, vacillate, valancing, valencias, valiances, variances, varicella, vaticinal, vicarages, vicarates, vicariant, vicariate, viscachas, vizcachas, vulcanian. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 76 69 61 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .- ...- .. .- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110110 01101001 01100001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a v i a |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0076 0069 0061 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3767887567 |
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