rock cavy

noun

rock cavy

noun
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:

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