Vi fant 3 definisjoner av gnawer på engelsk.
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| gnawer - relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing | ||
| rodent | ||
| eutherian, eutherian mammal, placental, placental mammal mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials | ||
| order rodentia, rodentia small gnawing animals: porcupines; rats; mice; squirrels; marmots; beavers; gophers; voles; hamsters; guinea pigs; agoutis | ||
| mouse any of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails | ||
| rat any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse | ||
| murine a rodent that is a member of the family Muridae | ||
| water rat any of various amphibious rats | ||
| new world mouse a variety of rodent | ||
| musquash, ondatra zibethica, muskrat beaver-like aquatic rodent of North America with dark glossy brown fur | ||
| florida water rat, neofiber alleni, round-tailed muskrat of Florida wetlands | ||
| cotton rat, sigmodon hispidus destructive long-haired burrowing rat of southern North America and Central America | ||
| 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; some are hosts for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks) | ||
| hamster short-tailed Old World burrowing rodent with large cheek pouches | ||
| gerbil, gerbille small Old World burrowing desert rodent with long soft pale fur and hind legs adapted for leaping | ||
| lemming any of various short-tailed furry-footed rodents of circumpolar distribution | ||
| porcupine, hedgehog relatively large rodents with sharp erectile bristles mingled with the fur | ||
| jumping mouse any of several primitive mouselike rodents with long hind legs and no cheek pouches; of woodlands of Eurasia and North America | ||
| jerboa mouselike jumping rodent | ||
| dormouse small furry-tailed squirrel-like Old World rodent that becomes torpid in cold weather | ||
| squirrel a kind of arboreal rodent having a long bushy tail | ||
| prairie dog, prairie marmot any of several rodents of North American prairies living in large complex burrows having a barking cry | ||
| marmot stocky coarse-furred burrowing rodent with a short bushy tail found throughout the northern hemisphere; hibernates in winter | ||
| beaver large semiaquatic rodent with webbed hind feet and a broad flat tail; construct complex dams and underwater lodges | ||
| aplodontia rufa, mountain beaver, sewellel bulky nocturnal burrowing rodent of uplands of the Pacific coast of North America; the most primitive living rodent | ||
| cavy short-tailed rough-haired South American rodent | ||
| dolichotis patagonum, mara hare-like rodent of the pampas of Argentina | ||
| capibara, capybara, hydrochoerus hydrochaeris pig-sized tailless South American amphibious rodent with partly webbed feet; largest living rodent | ||
| agouti, dasyprocta aguti agile long-legged rabbit-sized rodent of Central America and South America and the West Indies; valued as food | ||
| cuniculus paca, paca large burrowing rodent of South America and Central America; highly esteemed as food | ||
| mountain paca rodent of mountains of western South America | ||
| coypu, myocastor coypus, nutria aquatic South American rodent resembling a small beaver; bred for its fur | ||
| chinchilla laniger, chinchilla small rodent with soft pearly grey fur; native to the Andes but bred in captivity for fur | ||
| mountain chinchilla, mountain viscacha a rodent native to the mountains of Chile and Peru and now bred in captivity | ||
| chinchillon, lagostomus maximus, viscacha gregarious burrowing rodent larger than the chinchillas | ||
| abrocome, chinchilla rat, rat chinchilla ratlike rodent with soft fur and large ears of the Andes | ||
| mole rat furry short-limbed tailless rodent resembling a true mole in habits and appearance; of eastern Europe and Middle East | ||
| mole rat furry short-limbed tailless rodent resembling a true mole in habits and appearance; of eastern Europe and Middle East | ||
