wood rat vs gnawer

gnawer vs wood rat

wood rat and gnawer both are nouns.

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

As nouns, gnawer is a hypernym of wood rat; that is, gnawer 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)
gnawer: relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing

Other hypernyms of wood rat include rodent.

wood rat (noun)	gnawer (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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