rodent vs gerbil

gerbil vs rodent

rodent and gerbil both are nouns.

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

As nouns, gerbil is a hyponym of rodent; that is, gerbil 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
gerbil: small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping

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, 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)	gerbil (noun)
relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing	small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping

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