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gnawer
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Word definitions for gnawer in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A rodent or other similar type of animal that gnaws.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. relatively small gnawing animals having a single pair of constantly growing incisor teeth specialized for gnawing [syn: rodent , gnawing animal ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gnawer \Gnaw"er\, n. One who, or that which, gnaws. (Zo["o]l.) A rodent.
Usage examples of gnawer.
Tenderloin as a form of revenge against the pack of Bone Gnawers who had blackballed him for smoking crack.
Maybe there was something within the fetish that made blackballed Bone Gnawers want to kill the homeless.
Such other deads as Klein had seen at close range had about them an air of unearthly serenity, but not this one: Dolorosa was tense, fidgety, a knuckle-cracker, a lip gnawer.
Gnawer lair led across vacant rubble-strewn lots, down streets lined with storefront churches, overpriced, grocery and liquor stores, cheap eateries offering fast food soaked with grease, vacant buildings with smashed windows and cryptic, elaborate graffiti sprayed in layers across their walls.
Cokebottle each carried a plastic trash bag full of garbage for the other Gnawers to sift through before discarding.
The Gnawers were friends with the rats, so they never killed or even tried to discourage them.
Cokebottle and the two other Gnawers lifted their heads, then pulled themselves up to sit in lupus form, staring toward the open door, toward the night outside.
And then, one of the Gnawers, a female who seemed half wolf and half collie under her grime, lifted her own head and howled.
If anything, the liquid they had just ingested seemed to give the industrious gnawers renewed energy and determination.
Other Gnawers shifted restlessly, their own faces hard and angry, glaring back at her Pack, whose swelling Rage billowed around her in waves.
She heard a mutter or two from someone among the other Gnawers, but it fell silent almost at once.
South America is characterized by possessing many peculiar gnawers, a family of monkeys, the llama, peccari, tapir, opossums, and, especially, several genera of Edentata, the order which includes the sloths, ant-eaters, and armadilloes.
The Tucutuco (Ctenomys Brasiliensis) is a curious small animal, which may be briefly described as a Gnawer, with the habits of a mole.
North America, on the other hand, is characterized (putting on one side a few wandering species) by numerous peculiar gnawers, and by four genera (the ox, sheep, goat, and antelope) of hollow-horned ruminants, of which great division South America is not known to possess a single species.