gnawer vs wood-rat

wood-rat vs gnawer

gnawer and wood-rat both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
gnawer	Yes	No	No	No
wood-rat	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, wood-rat is a hyponym of gnawer; that is, wood-rat 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
wood-rat: any of various small short-tailed rodents of the Northern Hemisphere having soft fur grey above and white below with furred tails and large ears; some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)

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

gnawer (noun)	wood-rat (noun)
relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing	any of various small short-tailed rodents of the Northern Hemisphere having soft fur grey above and white below with furred tails and large ears; some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)

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