English-Finnish translations for guinea pig

• marsu
  Arvoisa puhemies, teidän on hyvä tietää, että tyttärelläni Elisabettalla on pieni kotieläin, marsu, siis jyrsijä, jonka nimi on Schumi. I have to tell you, Mr President, that my daughter Elisabetta has a tiny pet, a guinea pig, therefore a rodent, called Schumi.
  Minä rakastan eläimiä: todisteena siitä minulla on kotona kaksi koiraa, kolme kissaa ja marsu. Like Mrs Roth-Behrendt, I love animals, and proof of this is the fact that I have two dogs, three cats and a guinea pig at home.
  Te, arvoisa puhemies, joka seuraatte tarkkaavaisesti äänestysselityksiäni, tiedätte, että minulla on kotona marsu, jota tämä asetus myös koskee. Mr President, you who pay great attention to my explanations of vote know that I have a guinea pig at home, who is also affected by this regulation.
• koekaniini
  Se oli ensin hajoavan kommunistisen valtion koekaniini. First, it was the guinea pig of a Communist state that was breaking up.
  Sen jälkeen maasta tuli EU:n koekaniini, jolla tuolloin, yli kymmenen vuotta sitten, ei ollut todellista ulko- tai turvallisuuspolitiikkaa. Then it became a guinea pig for an EU which at the time, more than ten years ago, did not have real foreign or security policy.
  olla lentoyhtiön koekaniinina

Definition of guinea pig

• A tailless rodent of the family Caviidae and the genus ''Cavia'', with short ears and larger than a hamster; the species ''Cavia porcellus'is often kept as a pet
• A rodent of any of several species within the family Caviidae
• A professional company director, without time or real qualifications for the duties. Chambers 1908--

Examples

• He became a human guinea pig and was paid by the company.

Related words

• Guinea
• guinea
• Guinea-Bissau
• Guineafowl
• Guinean
• guineafowl
• guinea-fowl
• Equatoguinean
• anguinea
• Bissau-Guinean