gnawer vs beaver

beaver vs gnawer

gnawer and beaver both are nouns.

gnawer is not a verb while beaver is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
gnawer	Yes	No	No	No
beaver	Yes	No	Yes	No

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

gnawer: relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing
beaver: large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges

Other hyponyms of gnawer include mouse, rat, murine, water rat, New World mouse, muskrat, musquash, Ondatra zibethica, Florida water rat, Neofiber alleni, round-tailed muskrat, cotton rat, Sigmodon hispidus, wood-rat, wood rat, hamster, gerbil, gerbille, lemming, hedgehog, porcupine, jumping mouse, jerboa, dormouse, squirrel, prairie dog, prairie marmot, marmot, Aplodontia rufa, mountain beaver, sewellel, cavy, Dolichotis patagonum, mara, capibara, capybara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris, agouti, Dasyprocta aguti, Cuniculus paca, paca, mountain paca, coypu, Myocastor coypus, nutria, chinchilla, Chinchilla laniger, mountain chinchilla, mountain viscacha, chinchillon, Lagostomus maximus, viscacha, abrocome, chinchilla rat, rat chinchilla, mole rat, mole rat, sand rat.

gnawer (noun)	beaver (noun)
relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing	large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges
	a hat made with the fur of a beaver (or similar material)
	a movable piece of armor on a medieval helmet used to protect the lower face
	a man's hat with a tall crown; usually covered with silk or with beaver fur
	a full beard
	the soft brown fur of the beaver

gnawer (verb)	beaver (verb)
	work hard on something

Difference between gnawer and beaver

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