rodent vs porcupine

porcupine vs rodent

rodent and porcupine both are nouns.

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

As nouns, porcupine is a hyponym of rodent; that is, porcupine 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
porcupine: relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur

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, 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)	porcupine (noun)
relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing	relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur

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