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gnawer
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun gnawer has 1 sense
- gnawer(n = noun.animal) rodent - 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
Derived form verb gnaw1
CIDE DICTIONARY
gnawer, n.
- One who, or that which, gnaws. [1913 Webster]
- A rodent. [1913 Webster]
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