gnawer

English

Etymology

gnaw +‎ -er

Noun

gnawer (plural gnawers)

One who gnaws.
1. A rodent or other animal that gnaws.
  - 1839, Charles Darwin, The Voyage of the Beagle, Chapter 7,
    South America is characterized by possessing many peculiar gnawers […] .
  - 1947, Lloyd Glenn Ingles, Mammals of California, Stanford University Press, p. 182,
    The Norway Rat is a good digger and a superb gnawer.

Translations

rodent or other animal that gnaws

Bulgarian: гризач (bg) m (grizač)
Danish: gnaver (da) c
Dutch: knaagdier (nl) n
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: глодар m

Roman: glodar m

Swedish: gnagare (sv) c

Anagrams

Wagner, wanger

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