GNAWING MAMMAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gnawing mammal mean? 

• GNAWING MAMMAL (noun)
  The noun GNAWING MAMMAL has 1 sense:

1. relative large gnawing animals; distinguished from rodents by having two pairs of upper incisors specialized for gnawing

  Familiarity information: GNAWING MAMMAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GNAWING MAMMAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Relative large gnawing animals; distinguished from rodents by having two pairs of upper incisors specialized for gnawing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

gnawing mammal; lagomorph

Hypernyms ("gnawing mammal" is a kind of...):

eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gnawing mammal"):

Duplicidentata (in former classifications considered a suborder of Rodentia coextensive with the order Lagomorpha: gnawing animals)

leporid; leporid mammal (rabbits and hares)

coney; cony; mouse hare; pika; rock rabbit (small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America)

Holonyms ("gnawing mammal" is a member of...):

Lagomorpha; order Lagomorpha (rabbits; hares; pikas; formerly considered the suborder Duplicidentata of the order Rodentia)