gnawer
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1. relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing (noun.animal)
| hyponym | : | mouse, |
| definition | : | any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | rat, |
| definition | : | any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | murine, |
| definition | : | a rodent that is a member of the family Muridae (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | water rat, |
| definition | : | any of various amphibious rats (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | cotton rat, sigmodon hispidus, |
| definition | : | destructive long-haired burrowing rat of southern North America and Central America (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | wood rat, wood-rat, |
| definition | : | any of various small short-tailed rodents of the northern hemisphere having soft fur grey above and white below with furred tails and large ears; some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks) (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | hamster, |
| definition | : | short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | gerbil, gerbille, |
| definition | : | small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | lemming, |
| definition | : | any of various short-tailed furry-footed rodents of circumpolar distribution (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | hedgehog, porcupine, |
| definition | : | relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | jumping mouse, |
| definition | : | any of several primitive mouselike rodents with long hind legs and no cheek pouches; of woodlands of Eurasia and North America (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | jerboa, |
| definition | : | mouselike jumping rodent (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | dormouse, |
| definition | : | small furry-tailed squirrel-like Old World rodent that becomes torpid in cold weather (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | squirrel, |
| definition | : | a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | prairie dog, prairie marmot, |
| definition | : | any of several rodents of North American prairies living in large complex burrows having a barking cry (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | marmot, |
| definition | : | stocky coarse-furred burrowing rodent with a short bushy tail found throughout the northern hemisphere; hibernates in winter (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | beaver, |
| definition | : | large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | aplodontia rufa, mountain beaver, sewellel, |
| definition | : | bulky nocturnal burrowing rodent of uplands of the Pacific coast of North America; the most primitive living rodent (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | cavy, |
| definition | : | short-tailed rough-haired South American rodent (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | agouti, dasyprocta aguti, |
| definition | : | agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central America and South America and the West Indies; valued as food (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | cuniculus paca, paca, |
| definition | : | large burrowing rodent of South America and Central America; highly esteemed as food (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | mountain paca, |
| definition | : | rodent of mountains of western South America (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | coypu, myocastor coypus, nutria, |
| definition | : | aquatic South American rodent resembling a small beaver; bred for its fur (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | chinchilla, chinchilla laniger, |
| definition | : | small rodent with soft pearly grey fur; native to the Andes but bred in captivity for fur (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | mole rat, |
| definition | : | furry short-limbed tailless rodent resembling a true mole in habits and appearance; of eastern Europe and Middle East (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | mole rat, |
| definition | : | African rodent resembling a mole in habits and appearance (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | sand rat, |
| definition | : | small nearly naked African mole rat of desert areas (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | order rodentia, rodentia, |
| definition | : | small gnawing animals: porcupines; rats; mice; squirrels; marmots; beavers; gophers; voles; hamsters; guinea pigs; agoutis (noun.animal) |
| derivation | : | gnaw, |
| definition | : | bite or chew on with the teeth (verb.contact) |
| derivation | : | gnaw, |
| definition | : | bite or chew on with the teeth (verb.contact) |
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