rodent vs Chinchilla laniger

Chinchilla laniger vs rodent

rodent and Chinchilla laniger both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
rodent	Yes	No	No	No
Chinchilla laniger	Yes	No	No	No

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

rodent: relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing
Chinchilla laniger: small rodent with soft pearly grey fur; native to the Andes but bred in captivity for fur

Other hyponyms of rodent 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, 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, mountain chinchilla, mountain viscacha, chinchillon, Lagostomus maximus, viscacha, abrocome, chinchilla rat, rat chinchilla, mole rat, mole rat, sand rat.

rodent (noun)	Chinchilla laniger (noun)
relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing	small rodent with soft pearly grey fur; native to the Andes but bred in captivity for fur

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