English > gnawer: 1 sense > noun 1, animal| Meaning | relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing. |
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| Synonym | rodent |
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| Member of | Rodentia, order Rodentia | small gnawing animals |
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| Narrower | New World mouse | A variety of rodent |
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| abrocome, chinchilla rat, rat chinchilla | ratlike rodent with soft fur and large ears of the Andes |
| agouti, Dasyprocta aguti | agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central America and South America and the West Indies |
| beaver | large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail |
| capybara, capibara, Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris | pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet |
| cavy | short-tailed rough-haired South American rodent |
| chinchilla, Chinchilla laniger | small rodent with soft pearly grey fur |
| cotton rat, Sigmodon hispidus | destructive long-haired burrowing rat of southern North America and Central America |
| coypu, nutria, Myocastor coypus | aquatic South American rodent resembling a small beaver |
| dormouse | small furry-tailed squirrel-like Old World rodent that becomes torpid in cold weather |
| gerbil, gerbille | small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping |
| hamster | short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches |
| jerboa | mouselike jumping rodent |
| jumping mouse | Any of several primitive mouselike rodents with long hind legs and no cheek pouches |
| lemming | Any of various short-tailed furry-footed rodents of circumpolar distribution |
| mara, Dolichotis patagonum | Hare-like rodent of the pampas of Argentina |
| marmot | Stocky coarse-furred burrowing rodent with a short bushy tail found throughout the northern hemisphere |
| mole rat | African rodent resembling a mole in habits and appearance |
| mole rat | furry short-limbed tailless rodent resembling a true mole in habits and appearance |
| mountain beaver, sewellel, Aplodontia rufa | bulky nocturnal burrowing rodent of uplands of the Pacific coast of North America |
| mountain chinchilla, mountain viscacha | A rodent native to the mountains of Chile and Peru and now bred in captivity |
| mountain paca | rodent of mountains of western South America |
| mouse | Any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails |
| murine | A rodent that is a member of the family Muridae |
| muskrat, musquash, Ondatra zibethica | Beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur |
| paca, Cuniculus paca | large burrowing rodent of South America and Central America |
| porcupine, hedgehog | relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur |
| prairie dog, prairie marmot | Any of several rodents of North American prairies living in large complex burrows having a barking cry |
| rat | Any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger / larger than a mouse |
| round-tailed muskrat, Florida water rat, Neofiber alleni | Of Florida wetlands |
| sand rat | small nearly naked African mole rat of desert areas |
| squirrel | A kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail |
| viscacha, chinchillon, Lagostomus maximus | gregarious burrowing rodent larger / larger than the chinchillas |
| water rat | Any of various amphibious rats |
| 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 |
| Broader | placental, placental mammal, eutherian, eutherian mammal | mammals having a placenta |
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| Spanish | gnawer, rodentia, roedores, roedor |
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| Catalan | rosegador |
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| Verbs | gnaw | bite or chew on with the teeth |
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