musquash vs rodent

musquash and rodent both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
musquash	Yes	No	No	No
rodent	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, rodent is a hypernym of musquash; that is, rodent is a word with a broader meaning than musquash:

musquash: beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur
rodent: relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing

Other hypernyms of musquash include gnawer.

musquash (noun)	rodent (noun)
beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur	relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing