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rock cavies

rock cavies is the plural of rock cavy.

Meaning of rock cavy

Noun

rock cavy (plural rock cavies)

  1. A large cavy, Kerodon rupestris, native to Brazil.
    • [T]hey buried him in Borracha, where they had set up a shelter, in which the Sardelinha sisters offered soup made from Spanish plums, rock cavy, and yellow lupine.1984, Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen R. Lane, The War of the End of the World, Folio Society, published 2012, page 93

Questions about rock cavies

What is rock cavies the plural of?
Rock cavies is the plural of rock cavy.

Words near rock cavies in the dictionary

  1. rock cake
  2. rock cakes
  3. rock cam
  4. rock cams
  5. rock candy
  6. rock cavies
  7. rock cavy
  8. rock chat
  9. rock chats
  10. rock chuck
  11. rock chucks

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