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Rodent
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Rodent has 1 sense
- rodent(n = noun.animal) gnawer - relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing; Array is a kind of eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal
is a member of order rodentia, rodentia
has particulars: 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, 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
CIDE DICTIONARY
- Gnawing; biting; corroding;
(Med.) applied to a destructive variety of cancer or ulcer. [1913 Webster] - Gnawing. [1913 Webster]
Rodent, n.
One of the Rodentia. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Rodent, n. & adj.
--n. any mammal of the order Rodentia with strong incisors and no canine teeth, e.g. rat, mouse, squirrel, beaver, porcupine.
--adj.
1 of the order Rodentia.
2 gnawing (esp. Med. of slow-growing ulcers).
--n. any mammal of the order Rodentia with strong incisors and no canine teeth, e.g. rat, mouse, squirrel, beaver, porcupine.
--adj.
1 of the order Rodentia.
2 gnawing (esp. Med. of slow-growing ulcers).
Idiom
rodent officer Brit. an official dealing with rodent pests.
Derivative
rodential adj.
Etymology
L rodere ros- gnaw
THESAURUS
Rodent
amphibian, aquatic, biped, canine, cannibal, carnivore, cosmopolite, feline, gnawer, herbivore, insectivore, invertebrate, mammal, mammalian, marsupial, marsupialian, mouselike, mousy, omnivore, primate, quadruped, ratty, reptile, rodential, ruminant, scavenger, ungulate, varmint, vermin, verminous, vertebrate
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