rock rabbit vs dassie

rock rabbit and dassie both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
rock rabbit	Yes	No	No	No
dassie	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, dassie is a hypernym of rock rabbit; that is, dassie is a word with a broader meaning than rock rabbit:

rock rabbit: hyrax that lives in rocky areas
dassie: any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes

Other hypernyms of rock rabbit include coney, cony, das, hyrax.

rock rabbit (noun)	dassie (noun)
small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America	any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes
hyrax that lives in rocky areas