prairie marmot vs rodent

prairie marmot and rodent both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
prairie marmot	Yes	No	No	No
rodent	Yes	No	No	No

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

prairie marmot: any of several rodents of North American prairies living in large complex burrows having a barking cry
rodent: relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing

Other hypernyms of prairie marmot include gnawer.

prairie marmot (noun)	rodent (noun)
any of several rodents of North American prairies living in large complex burrows having a barking cry	relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing