gnawer vs chinchilla

chinchilla vs gnawer

gnawer and chinchilla both are nouns.

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

As nouns, chinchilla is a hyponym of gnawer; that is, chinchilla 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
chinchilla: small rodent with soft pearly grey fur; native to the Andes but bred in captivity for fur

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, beaver, 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 laniger, mountain chinchilla, mountain viscacha, chinchillon, Lagostomus maximus, viscacha, abrocome, chinchilla rat, rat chinchilla, mole rat, mole rat, sand rat.

gnawer (noun)	chinchilla (noun)
relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing	small rodent with soft pearly grey fur; native to the Andes but bred in captivity for fur
	a thick twilled fabric of wool and cotton
	the expensive silvery grey fur of the chinchilla

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