gnawer vs coypu

coypu vs gnawer

gnawer and coypu both are nouns.

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

As nouns, coypu is a hyponym of gnawer; that is, coypu 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
coypu: aquatic South American rodent resembling a small beaver; bred for its 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, 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)	coypu (noun)
relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing	aquatic South American rodent resembling a small beaver; bred for its fur

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