conejillo de Indias
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Language
Spanish
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conejillo de Indias is aSpanishphrase. It means: (Cavia spp.) Mamífero roedor sudamericano, estrictamente herbívoro. Pesa alrededor de un kilo, vive en áreas abiertas y utiliza hoyos y madrigueras para ocultarse y protegerse. Tiene una longevidad... Pronounced [koneˈxiʝo ð̞e ˈĩn̪d̪jas].
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | conejillo de Indias |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Phrase |
| IPA | [koneˈxiʝo ð̞e ˈĩn̪d̪jas] |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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The Spanish entry for conejillo de Indias is 19 letters long, classified as aphrase, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [koneˈxiʝo ð̞e ˈĩn̪d̪jas]. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for conejillo de Indias in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable Spanish patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is conejillo de Indias, spelled C-O-N-E-J-I-L-L-O- -D-E- -I-N-D-I-A-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1(Cavia spp.) Mamífero roedor sudamericano, estrictamente herbívoro. Pesa alrededor de un kilo, vive en áreas abiertas y utiliza hoyos y madrigueras para ocultarse y protegerse. Tiene una longevidad de cuatro a seis años. Los incas domesticaron y criaron estos roedores para aprovechar su carne y su piel. En la actualidad también se le cría para usarlo en experimentos científicos y como mascotas. Las dos especies más comunes son Cavia porcellus y Cavia aperea.
- 2Voluntario para probar tratamientos, productos químicos o farmacéuticos y observar el resultado o efecto de tales experimentaciones.
- 3Cualquier situación o individuo usados como experimento o ensayo.
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