rodent vs Cuniculus paca

Cuniculus paca vs rodent

rodent and Cuniculus paca both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
rodent	Yes	No	No	No
Cuniculus paca	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, Cuniculus paca is a hyponym of rodent; that is, Cuniculus paca 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
Cuniculus paca: large burrowing rodent of South America and Central America; highly esteemed as food

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, paca, mountain paca, coypu, Myocastor coypus, nutria, chinchilla, Chinchilla laniger, mountain chinchilla, mountain viscacha, chinchillon, Lagostomus maximus, viscacha, abrocome, chinchilla rat, rat chinchilla, mole rat, mole rat, sand rat.

rodent (noun)	Cuniculus paca (noun)
relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing	large burrowing rodent of South America and Central America; highly esteemed as food

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