gerbille vs jird

gerbille and jird both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
gerbille	Yes	No	No	No
jird	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, jird is a hyponym of gerbille; that is, jird is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than gerbille:

gerbille: small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping
jird: gerbil of northern Africa

Other hyponyms of gerbille include Meriones unguiculatus, tamarisk gerbil, Meriones longifrons, sand rat.

gerbille (noun)	jird (noun)
small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping	gerbil of northern Africa