rodent
part of speech
noun (a rodent, rodents)
meaning for a pupil
A rodent is a small mammal with sharp front teeth that keep growing, such as a mouse, rat, squirrel, hamster, guinea pig or beaver. tree →
sense in the lessons
Science (classifying animals): rodents are mammals; they gnaw to keep their teeth short. Pets: hamsters, gerbils, guinea pigs and mice are rodents. Health and safety: wild rats and mice can carry germs, so wash your hands and keep food covered. Phrases: small rodents, rodent teeth.
examples
- A mouse is a rodent. tree →
- Beavers are the largest rodents in North America. tree →
- Rodents' teeth never stop growing. tree →
- Our class pet is a rodent called Nibbles. tree →
- The owl hunts rodents at night. tree →
- Is a rabbit a rodent? No, it belongs to a different group. tree →
- The cotia--a species of rodent--is also in love with her, and he tells the deer that he can make a riding-horse of the jaguar. tree →
note
Countable: a rodent, rodents. Trap: rabbits and hares are NOT rodents (they are lagomorphs), and shrews and moles are not rodents either. Squirrels and porcupines are rodents.
In the corpora
- The aye-aye's teeth keep growing like a rodent's, so scientists first thought it was a kind of squirrel.
- The capybara is the biggest rodent alive and can weigh as much as a grown man.
- Rodent front teeth have a hard orange layer and keep growing all their life, so yellow-orange teeth are normal and healthy.
- Squirrels are rodents whose front teeth grow all the time, about fifteen centimetres a year, and gnawing hard nuts wears them down.
- There are more than 1,400 kinds of bat, about one in five mammal kinds; only rodents have more kinds.
Trees and pragmatics
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