wood-rat vs rodent

rodent vs wood-rat

wood-rat and rodent both are nouns.

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

As nouns, rodent is a hypernym of wood-rat; that is, rodent is a word with a broader meaning than wood-rat:

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)
rodent: relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing

Other hypernyms of wood-rat include gnawer.

wood-rat (noun)	rodent (noun)
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)	relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing

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