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Definition of Gnawer
1. Noun. Relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing.
Generic synonyms: Eutherian, Eutherian Mammal, Placental, Placental Mammal
Group relationships: Order Rodentia, Rodentia
Specialized synonyms: Mouse, Rat, Murine, Water Rat, New World Mouse, Muskrat, Musquash, Ondatra Zibethica, Florida Water Rat, Neofiber Alleni, Round-tailed Muskrat, Cotton Rat, Sigmodon Hispidus, Wood Rat, Wood-rat, Hamster, Gerbil, Gerbille, Lemming, Hedgehog, Porcupine, Jumping Mouse, Jerboa, Dormouse, Squirrel, Prairie Dog, Prairie Marmot, Marmot, Beaver, Aplodontia Rufa, Mountain Beaver, Sewellel, Cavy, Dolichotis Patagonum, Mara, Capibara, Capybara, Hydrochoerus Hydrochaeris, Agouti, Dasyprocta Aguti, Cuniculus Paca, Paca, Mountain Paca, Coypu, Myocastor Coypus, Nutria, Chinchilla, Chinchilla Laniger, Mountain Chinchilla, Mountain Viscacha, Chinchillon, Lagostomus Maximus, Viscacha, Abrocome, Chinchilla Rat, Rat Chinchilla, Mole Rat, Mole Rat, Sand Rat
Derivative terms: Gnaw
Definition of Gnawer
1. n. One who, or that which, gnaws.
Definition of Gnawer
1. Noun. rodent or other similar type of animal that gnaws ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Gnawer
1. one that gnaws [n -S] - See also: gnaws
Medical Definition of Gnawer
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1. One who, or that which, gnaws.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Gnawer
Literary usage of Gnawer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pahlavi Texts by Edward William West (1882)
"As regards the shrinking away of those who are sinners, the nearer way to a remedy
is the gnawer away from men1; the fat becomes separate from the bone, ..."
2. Pahlavi Texts: Part I and II by Edward William West (1901)
"As regards the shrinking away of those who are sinners, the nearer way to a remedy
is the gnawer away from men1 ; the fat becomes separate from the bone, ..."
3. On Animal and Vegetable Parasites of the Human Body: A Manual of Their by Friedrich Küchenmeister (1857)
"This would correspond with the Arabic participle (nomen agentis), and would have
to be rendered the gnawer or the gnawing one. The question is now, ..."
4. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg (1854)
"It never occurs, indeed, in prose ; and this can be the less accidental, as Qf3,
the gnawer is also never found in prose writings, and ^iDH only once, ..."
5. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"... a gnawer, lover of dainties ; also a sea-fish wiih sharp teeth. ... As the
sense is 'gnawer' or 'nibbler,' it was easily applied to fish of various ..."
6. Prospectus of a Dictionary of the Language of the Aire Coti, Or, Ancient by Charles Vallancey (1802)
"... the biter with the claws — Miol mor, the great biter, a whale — Miol crion,
a moth, the gnawer of dry things — Miol gaile, a belly worm, the gnawer of ..."
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