rodent vs water rat

water rat vs rodent

rodent and water rat both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
rodent	Yes	No	No	No
water rat	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, water rat is a hyponym of rodent; that is, water rat 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
water rat: any of various amphibious rats

Other hyponyms of rodent include mouse, rat, murine, 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)	water rat (noun)
relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing	any of various amphibious rats
	common large Eurasian vole
	a person who enjoys being in or on the water

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