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    GNAWING MAMMAL

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    gnawing mammal; lagomorph

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    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)

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