rodent vs wood rat

wood rat vs rodent

rodent and wood rat both are nouns.

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

As nouns, wood rat is a hyponym of rodent; that is, wood 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
wood rat: any of various small short-tailed rodents of the Northern Hemisphere having soft fur grey above and white below with furred tails and large ears; some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)

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, 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)	wood rat (noun)
relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing	any of various small short-tailed rodents of the Northern Hemisphere having soft fur grey above and white below with furred tails and large ears; some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)

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