gnawing mammal

1. 1.

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

   Synonymslagomorph

   Broaderplacental

   NarrowerDuplicidentataleporidpika

   Part ofLagomorpha

Questions about gnawing mammal

What does gnawing mammal mean?

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

What is another word for gnawing mammal?

Close synonyms include lagomorph. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gnawing mammal a common word?

gnawing mammal is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.