"cavia" meaning in Italian

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      "expansion": "New Latin Cavia",
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        "2": "roa-opt",
        "3": "çavia",
        "4": "",
        "5": "the spiny rat"
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      "expansion": "Portuguese sauiá",
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  "etymology_text": "From New Latin Cavia, from Old Galician-Portuguese çavia (“the spiny rat”), from Old Tupi saujá. Compare Portuguese sauiá.",
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    {
      "form": "cavie",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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  "hyphenation": [
    "cà‧via"
  ],
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  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "guinea pig (rodent)"
      ],
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          "guinea pig",
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "porcellino d'India"
        }
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        "feminine"
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          "text": "fare da/la cavia",
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        "guinea pig (experimental subject)"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈka.vja/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-avja"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cavia"
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  "etymology_text": "From New Latin Cavia, from Old Galician-Portuguese çavia (“the spiny rat”), from Old Tupi saujá. Compare Portuguese sauiá.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "cavie",
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        "plural"
      ]
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    "cà‧via"
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  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "guinea pig (rodent)"
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      "ipa": "/ˈka.vja/"
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    {
      "rhymes": "-avja"
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  "word": "cavia"
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