rodent vs mole rat

mole rat vs rodent

rodent and mole rat both are nouns.

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

As nouns, mole rat is a hyponym of rodent; that is, mole 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
mole rat: furry short-limbed tailless rodent resembling a true mole in habits and appearance; of eastern Europe and Middle East

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, 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, sand rat.

rodent (noun)	mole rat (noun)
relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing	African rodent resembling a mole in habits and appearance
	burrowing scaly-tailed rat of India and Ceylon
	furry short-limbed tailless rodent resembling a true mole in habits and appearance; of eastern Europe and Middle East

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