rodent vs cotton rat

cotton rat vs rodent

rodent and cotton rat both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
rodent	Yes	No	No	No
cotton rat	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cotton rat is a hyponym of rodent; that is, cotton rat 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
cotton rat: destructive long-haired burrowing rat of southern North America and Central America

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, 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)	cotton rat (noun)
relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing	destructive long-haired burrowing rat of southern North America and Central America

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