rodent vs murine

murine vs rodent

rodent and murine both are nouns.

rodent is not an adjective while murine is an adjective.

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

As nouns, murine is a hyponym of rodent; that is, murine 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
murine: a rodent that is a member of the family Muridae

Other hyponyms of rodent include mouse, rat, 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, mole rat, mole rat, sand rat.

rodent (noun)	murine (noun)
relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing	a rodent that is a member of the family Muridae

rodent (adjective)	murine (adjective)
	of or relating to or transmitted by a member of the family Muridae (rats and mice)

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