rodent vs mountain beaver

mountain beaver vs rodent

rodent and mountain beaver both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
rodent	Yes	No	No	No
mountain beaver	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, mountain beaver is a hyponym of rodent; that is, mountain beaver 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
mountain beaver: bulky nocturnal burrowing rodent of uplands of the Pacific coast of North America; the most primitive living rodent

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, 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)	mountain beaver (noun)
relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing	bulky nocturnal burrowing rodent of uplands of the Pacific coast of North America; the most primitive living rodent

Difference between rodent and mountain beaver

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