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# rodent

«rodent» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small mammal with sharp front teeth that keep growing…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rodent/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rodent/#x1)
- Beavers are the largest rodents in North America. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rodent/#x2)
- Rodents' teeth never stop growing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rodent/#x3)
- Our class pet is a rodent called Nibbles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rodent/#x4)
- The owl hunts rodents at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rodent/#x5)
- Is a rabbit a rodent? No, it belongs to a different group. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rodent/#x6)
- 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rodent/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/127-madagascar-real-lemurs/11/)
- [The capybara is the biggest rodent alive and can weigh as much as a grown man.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/158-amazon-giants-and-tall-tales/12/)
- [Rodent front teeth have a hard orange layer and keep growing all their life, so yellow-orange teeth are normal and healthy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/202-hamsters-gerbils-and-pet-rats-and-mice/8/)
- [Squirrels are rodents whose front teeth grow all the time, about fifteen centimetres a year, and gnawing hard nuts wears them down.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/215-foxes-and-squirrels/15/)
- [There are more than 1,400 kinds of bat, about one in five mammal kinds; only rodents have more kinds.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/314-bats-of-the-world-flying-foxes-vampire-bats-the-bumblebee-bat-and-tent-makers/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «rodent» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/rodent/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.