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Among them were small, rodent-like mammals belonging to the genus Cimolodon.

From Science Daily • Apr. 27, 2026

She makes great round nests of leaves and teaches her offspring to eat wood-boring insect larvae and fruit, using those rodent-like incisors to break through hard skins or rinds to the sweet flesh inside.

From Salon • May 11, 2025

Why is “squab” a delicious entree but a “pigeon” a rodent-like nuisance?

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2022

Despite their rodent-like appearance, the hyrax's nearest living relatives are elephants and they have tusk-like incisors which are larger and sharper in males.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2021

It was a girl whose face was sharp and rodent-like, half-hidden by a giant pair of sunglasses.

From Little Brother by Doctorow, Cory