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Gnawer

noun
1.
Relatively small placental mammals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing.  Synonym: rodent.





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... Brasiliensis) is a curious small animal, which may be briefly described as a Gnawer, with the habits of a mole. It is extremely numerous in some parts of the country, but it is difficult to be procured, and never, I believe, comes out of the ground. It throws up at the mouth of its burrows hillocks of earth like those ...
— The Voyage of the Beagle • Charles Darwin


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