rodent

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animal mammal

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Etymology

Latin rodens (stem rodent-), present participle of rodere ‘to gnaw’.

Noun

rodent (plural rodents)

1. A mammal of the order Rodentia, characterized by long incisors that grow continuously and are worn down by gnawing.

Synonyms

• gnawer

Hyponyms

• See also Wikisaurus:rodent

Translations

mammal of the order Rodentia

Armenian: կրծող (hy) (krçoġ) Bosnian: glodar (bs) m. Breton: krigner m. Bulgarian: гризач (bg) (grizač) m. Catalan: rosegador (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 嚙齒目動物 (cmn), 啮齿目动物 (cmn) (nièchǐmù dòngwù), 嚙齒動物 (cmn), 啮齿动物 (cmn) (nièchǐ dòngwù) Croatian: glodavac m. Czech: hlodavec (cs) m. Danish: gnaver (da) Dutch: knaagdier (nl) n. Esperanto: ronĝulo Estonian: näriline (et) Finnish: jyrsijä (fi) French: rongeur (fr) m. German: Nagetier (de) n., Nager (de) m. Greek: τρωκτικό (el) (troktikó) n. Hebrew: מכרסם Hungarian: rágcsáló (hu) Icelandic: nagdýr (is) n.

Indonesian: pengerat (id) Italian: roditore (it) m. Japanese: 齧歯類 (ja) (げっしるい, gesshirui), 齧歯動物 (ja) (げっしどうぶつ, gesshi-dōbutsu) Korean: 설치류 (ko) (seolchiryu) Latvian: grauzējs (lv) m. Lithuanian: graužikas m. Navajo: tsin deigházhígíí Norwegian: gnager (no) m. Occitan: rosegaire (oc) Polish: gryzoń (pl) Portuguese: roedor (pt) m. Romanian: rozător n. Russian: грызун (ru) (gryzún) m. Serbian: Cyrillic: глодар (sr) m. Roman: glodar m. Slovak: hlodavec (sk) m. Slovene: glodalec (sl) m. Spanish: roedor (es) m. Swedish: gnagare (sv) c. Vietnamese: gặm nhấm (vi)

See also

• agouti
• beaver
• capybara
• chinchilla
• chipmunk
• Count Branicki's mouse
• coypu
• dormouse
• gerbil
• gopher
• guinea pig
• hamster
• hare
• jerboa
• marmot
• mole rat
• mouse
• nutria
• paca
• pacarana
• porcupine
• prairie dog
• rat
• springhare
• squirrel
• viscacha

Anagrams

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French

Verb

rodent

1. third-person plural present indicative of roder
2. third-person plural present subjunctive of roder

Anagrams

• dorent, dronte, endort, tondre

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Latin

Verb

rōdent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of rōdō