placental mammal vs rodent

rodent vs placental mammal

placental mammal and rodent both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
placental mammal	Yes	No	No	No
rodent	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, rodent is a hyponym of placental mammal; that is, rodent is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than placental mammal:

placental mammal: mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials
rodent: relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing

Other hyponyms of placental mammal include farm animal, livestock, stock, bull, cow, yearling, buck, doe, insectivore, aquatic mammal, carnivore, Fissipedia, aardvark, ant bear, anteater, Orycteropus afer, bat, chiropteran, gnawing mammal, lagomorph, gnawer, Ungulata, hoofed mammal, ungulate, Unguiculata, unguiculate, unguiculate mammal, coney, cony, das, dassie, hyrax, pachyderm, edentate, anteater, pangolin, scaly anteater, primate, tree shrew, colugo, flying cat, flying lemur, proboscidean, proboscidian, plantigrade, plantigrade mammal, digitigrade, digitigrade mammal.

placental mammal (noun)	rodent (noun)
mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials	relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing

Difference between placental mammal and rodent

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