agouti vs rodent

agouti and rodent both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
agouti	Yes	No	No	No
rodent	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, rodent is a hypernym of agouti; that is, rodent is a word with a broader meaning than agouti:

agouti: agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central America and South America and the West Indies; valued as food
rodent: relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing

Other hypernyms of agouti include gnawer.

agouti (noun)	rodent (noun)
agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central America and South America and the West Indies; valued as food	relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing