Chinchilla laniger vs gnawer

Chinchilla laniger and gnawer both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Chinchilla laniger	Yes	No	No	No
gnawer	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, gnawer is a hypernym of Chinchilla laniger; that is, gnawer is a word with a broader meaning than Chinchilla laniger:

Chinchilla laniger: small rodent with soft pearly grey fur; native to the Andes but bred in captivity for fur
gnawer: relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing

Other hypernyms of Chinchilla laniger include rodent.

Chinchilla laniger (noun)	gnawer (noun)
small rodent with soft pearly grey fur; native to the Andes but bred in captivity for fur	relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing