rodent vs prairie marmot

prairie marmot vs rodent

rodent and prairie marmot both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
rodent	Yes	No	No	No
prairie marmot	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, prairie marmot is a hyponym of rodent; that is, prairie marmot 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
prairie marmot: any of several rodents of North American prairies living in large complex burrows having a barking cry

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, 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)	prairie marmot (noun)
relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing	any of several rodents of North American prairies living in large complex burrows having a barking cry

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