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4 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun short-tailed rough-haired South American rodent
originFrom obsolete Portuguese çavia (“the spiny rat, Makalata armate, Echimys armata”) (modern saviá, sauiá), from Old Tupi saujá.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0