gnawer

noun

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

• Syn: ↑rodent

• Derivationally related forms: ↑gnaw

• Hypernyms: ↑placental, ↑placental mammal, ↑eutherian, ↑eutherian mammal

• Hyponyms:

↑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, ↑sand rat

• Member Holonyms: ↑Rodentia, ↑order Rodentia