Word Meanings - GNAWER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A rodent. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, gnaws.

Related words: (words related to GNAWER)

• RODENTIA
  An order of mammals having two large incisor teeth in each jaw, distant from the molar teeth. The rats, squirrels, rabbits, marmots, and beavers belong to this order. Note: The incisor teeth are long, curved, and strongly enameled on the outside,
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• RODENT
  1. Gnawing; biting; corroding; applied to a destructive variety of cancer or ulcer. Gnawing. Of or pertaining to the Rodentia.
• CORRODENT
  Corrosive. Bp. King.
• ERODENT
  A medicine which eats away extraneous growths; a caustic.