rodent vs New World mouse

New World mouse vs rodent

rodent and New World mouse both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
rodent	Yes	No	No	No
New World mouse	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, New World mouse is a hyponym of rodent; that is, New World mouse 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
New World mouse: a variety of rodent

Other hyponyms of rodent include mouse, rat, murine, water rat, 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, Chinchilla laniger, mountain chinchilla, mountain viscacha, chinchillon, Lagostomus maximus, viscacha, abrocome, chinchilla rat, rat chinchilla, mole rat, mole rat, sand rat.

rodent (noun)	New World mouse (noun)
relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing	a variety of rodent

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