rodent vs dormouse

dormouse vs rodent

rodent and dormouse both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
rodent	Yes	No	No	No
dormouse	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, dormouse is a hyponym of rodent; that is, dormouse 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
dormouse: small furry-tailed squirrel-like Old World rodent that becomes torpid in cold weather

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, 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)	dormouse (noun)
relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing	small furry-tailed squirrel-like Old World rodent that becomes torpid in cold weather

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