rodent vs paca

rodent and paca both are nouns.

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

As nouns, paca is a hyponym of rodent; that is, paca 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
paca: large burrowing rodent of South America and Central America; highly esteemed as food

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, 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)	paca (noun)
relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing	large burrowing rodent of South America and Central America; highly esteemed as food

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