English-French translations for rodent

• rongeur
  Comme tout bon rongeur, il mange des noisettes, raison pour laquelle j' ai cru bon de lui demander à lui, en sa qualité d' expert, ce qu' il pensait de ce rapport. Being a rodent, it eats hazelnuts, and so I decided to ask it, as an expert, what it thought of the report.
  Il faut que vous sachiez, monsieur le Président, que ma fille Elisabetta a un tout petit animal domestique, un cochon d' Inde, donc un rongeur, qui s' appelle Schumi. I have to tell you, Mr President, that my daughter Elisabetta has a tiny pet, a guinea pig, therefore a rodent, called Schumi.

Definition of rodent

• A mammal of the order Rodentia, characterized by long incisors that grow continuously and are worn down by gnawing
• A person lacking in maturity, social skills, technical competence or intelligence; lamer.
• Gnawing; biting; corroding; applied to a destructive variety of cancer or ulcer

Related words

• rodenticide
• rodents
• microdenticulation
• parodentium
• Rodentia