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Synset

relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing
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gnawer more info
rodent more info
lexical pointers
derivationally related form
gnaw
semantic pointers
hypernym
placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal
member holonym
Rodentia, order Rodentia
hyponym
mouse rat murine water rat New World mouse muskrat, musquash, Ondatra zibethica round-tailed muskrat, Florida water rat, Neofiber alleni cotton rat, Sigmodon hispidus wood rat, wood-rat hamster gerbil, gerbille lemming porcupine, hedgehog jumping mouse jerboa dormouse squirrel prairie dog, prairie marmot marmot beaver mountain beaver, sewellel, Aplodontia rufa cavy mara, Dolichotis patagonum capybara, capibara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris agouti, Dasyprocta aguti paca, Cuniculus paca mountain paca coypu, nutria, Myocastor coypus chinchilla, Chinchilla laniger mountain chinchilla, mountain viscacha viscacha, chinchillon, Lagostomus maximus abrocome, chinchilla rat, rat chinchilla mole rat mole rat sand rat