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Cottontail

Cottontail \Cot"ton*tail`\ (k[o^]t"t'n*t[=a]l`), n. (Zo["o]l.) The American wood rabbit ( Lepus sylvaticus); -- also called Molly cottontail.

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cottontail

n. 1 A rabbit of any of various species in genus (taxlink Sylvilagus genus noshow=1). 2 (context nudism English) A person with a tanned body and untanned buttocks resembling a cottontail rabbit's dark fur and light tail.

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cottontail

n. common small rabbit of North America having grayish or brownish fur and a tail with a white underside; a host for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks) [syn: wood rabbit, cottontail rabbit]

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Cottontail (disambiguation)

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Usage examples of "cottontail".

Cottontail, who could walk in them like most girls walked in flats, was smirking as the Keldara female attempted to balance on the top of the stilletto sandals.

The air was cool and fresh and I had the road to myself except for the squirrels and bluejays and cottontail rabbits.

This part of the country was too settled for large game, but Billy kept Saxon supplied with squirrels and quail, cottontails and jackrabbits, snipe and wild ducks.

Miller also found a large amount of bleached rabbit droppings and other signs that cottontails had been plentiful in the area the previous summer.

Out of the mist four young Buddhist monks in adidas shoes, no socks, red skirts, and saffron-colored silk jackets scurry along the trail, happy as cottontails in the cold.

This conclusion was reinforced when Miller and Prince found that the area's kangaroo rats had been wiped out with the cottontails.

Cottontails, mule deer, and, if she were lucky, a coyote, flickered through the gray branches of the rabbit brush.

A rabbit has been calculated to possess one-hundred-million olfactory receptors—small wonder its little schnozz is always twitching, it is trapped in an undulating blizzard of aromatic stimuli—and Marcel "Bunny" LeFever was reputed, with some exaggeration, to be the human equivalent of Peter Cottontail.