rodent vs squirrel

squirrel vs rodent

rodent and squirrel both are nouns.

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

As nouns, squirrel is a hyponym of rodent; that is, squirrel 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
squirrel: a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail

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, 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)	squirrel (noun)
relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing	a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail
	the fur of a squirrel

Difference between rodent and squirrel

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