rodent

See also: rôdent

English

Picture dictionary: rodent

rodent

capybara

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agouti beaver brush-tailed porcupine chipmunk gundi hamster mountain degu mouse North American porcupine porcupine rat squirrel wood mouse vole

Alternative forms

• rodente (obsolete)

Etymology

From Latin rōdēns, rōdent- (“gnawer; one who gnaws”), present participle of rōdō (“to gnaw”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊdənt/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɹoʊdənt/

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• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʉdənt/
• (New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈɹɐʉdənt/

Noun

rodent (plural rodents)

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

   Hypernyms: (taxonomically) mammal < vertebrate < animal < organism; (otherwise) gnawer, critter, creature

   Hyponyms: murine, murid, muroid, myomorph, myodont; mouse, rat, vole, hamster, gerbil, lemming, bat, beaver, nutria, capybara; more at Thesaurus:rodent

   • 2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193:

     Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. A recent study explored the ecological variables that may contribute to bats’ propensity to harbor such zoonotic diseases by comparing them with another order of common reservoir hosts: rodents.

3. (dated, bulletin board system slang, leetspeak, derogatory) A person lacking in maturity, social skills, technical competence or intelligence; lamer. [mid-1980s–mid-1990s]

Derived terms

• antirodent
• hot rodent man
• Malagasy rodent
• nonrodent
• rodentborne
• rodent bot
• rodential
• rodenticide
• rodentless
• rodentlike
• rodentology
• rodentophobia
• rodentproof
• rodentsona
• rodenty

Translations

mammal of the order Rodentia

Afrikaans: knaagdier (af) Albanian: brejtës (sq) m Altai: Southern Altai: кемирчек (kemirček) Arabic: قَارِض m (qāriḍ), قَوَارِض m pl (qawāriḍ) Armenian: կրծող (hy) (krcoġ) Asturian: royedor (ast) m Azerbaijani: gəmirici (az), kəsəyən Bashkir: кимереүсе (kimerewse) Basque: karraskari Belarusian: грызу́н m (hryzún) Breton: krigner m Bulgarian: гризач (bg) m (grizač) Burmese: ကြွက် (my) (krwak) (mouse, rat) Catalan: rosegador (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 齧齒目動物 / 啮齿目动物 (nièchǐmù dòngwù), 嚙齒目動物 / 啮齿目动物 (nièchǐmù dòngwù), 齧齒動物 / 啮齿动物 (zh) (nièchǐ dòngwù), 嚙齒動物 / 啮齿动物 (zh) (nièchǐ dòngwù) Czech: hlodavec (cs) m Danish: gnaver (da) c Dutch: knaagdier (nl) n Esperanto: ronĝulo (eo) Estonian: näriline Faroese: gnagdýr n Finnish: jyrsijä (fi) French: rongeur (fr) m Frisian: West Frisian: kjifdier n Friulian: roseadôr Galician: roedor (gl) m Georgian: მღრღნელი (mɣrɣneli) German: Nagetier (de) n, Nager (de) m Greek: τρωκτικό (el) n (troktikó) Hebrew: מְכַרְסֵם (he) (mekharsem) Hindi: कृंतक (kŕntak) Hungarian: rágcsáló (hu) Icelandic: nagdýr (is) n Ido: rodero (io) Indonesian: pengerat (id) Irish: creimire m Isan: please add this translation if you can Italian: roditore (it) m Japanese: 齧歯類 (ja) (げっしるい, gesshirui), 齧歯動物 (げっしどうぶつ, gesshi-dōbutsu) Kalmyk: мерәч (meräç) Kazakh: кеміргіш (kemirgiš), кеміруші (kemirüwši), кеміруші (kemirüwši) Khmer: រទច្ឆេទី (rĕəʼtĕəʼcheetii) Korean: 설치류 (seolchiryu) Kyrgyz: кемирүүчү (kemirüücü) Lao: ຈຳພວກໜູ (cham phūak nū) Latvian: grauzējs m Lithuanian: graužikas m Lü: please add this translation if you can Macedonian: глодар m (glodar) Malay: rodensia, tikus (ms) (mouse, rat) Māori: rīroi Mongolian: Cyrillic: мэрэгч амьтан (meregč amʹtan) Navajo: tsin deigházhígíí Norwegian: Bokmål: gnager (no) m Nynorsk: gnagar m Occitan: rosegaire (oc) Persian: جوندگان (fa) (javandgân), جونده (fa) (javande) Polish: gryzoń (pl) m Portuguese: roedor (pt) m Romanian: rozător (ro) n Russian: грызу́н (ru) m (gryzún) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: гло̀да̄р m, глодавац m Latin: glòdār m, glodavac m Shan: please add this translation if you can Slovak: hlodavec (sk) m Slovene: glodavec m, glodalec (sl) m Spanish: roedor (es) m Swedish: gnagare (sv) c Tajik: хоянда (xoyanda) Tatar: кимерүче (tt) (kimerüçe) Thai: สัตว์ฟันแทะ (th) (sàt-fan-tɛ́) Northern Thai: please add this translation if you can Southern Thai: please add this translation if you can Tok Pisin: rat Turkish: kemirgen (tr), kemirici (tr) Ottoman Turkish: كمریجی (kemirici), موش (muş) Turkmen: gemriji Ukrainian: гризу́н m (hryzún), гризуне́ць m (hryzunécʹ) Uyghur: غاجىغۇچى (ghajighuchi) Uzbek: kemiruvchi (uz) Vietnamese: gặm nhấm (vi) (𡄎𠰃) Welsh: cnofil (cy) m Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

Adjective

rodent (not comparable)

1. Gnawing; biting; corroding; applied to a destructive variety of cancer or ulcer.

Anagrams

• dentro, dronte, torend

French

Verb

rodent

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

Anagrams

• dorent, dronte, endort, tondre

Latin

Verb

rōdent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of rōdō