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cavimorph

cavimorph is the alternative form of caviomorph.

Meaning of caviomorph

Noun

caviomorph (plural caviomorphs)

  1. Any rodent of the infraorder (sometimes parvorder) Caviomorpha, that unites all South American hystricognaths.
    • Cavies are caviomorphs. Caviomorphs are tailless South American rodents that are characterized by having one pair of mammae (teats), four digits on the forefoot, and three digits on the hind foot, as well as special anatomical features of the head and jaws.2003, Sharon Lynn Vanderlip, The Guinea Pig Handbook, page 11

Forms of cavimorph

pluralcavimorphs

Questions about cavimorph

What is cavimorph the alternative form of?
Cavimorph is the alternative form of caviomorph.

Words near cavimorph in the dictionary

  1. cavillers
  2. cavilling
  3. cavillings
  4. cavillous
  5. cavils
  6. cavimorph
  7. cavimorphs
  8. cavin
  9. Cavina
  10. caving
  11. caving in

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cavimorph (page history and authors); caviomorph (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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