The Collaborative International Dictionary
Desert \Des"ert\, a. [Cf. L. desertus, p. p. of deserere, and F. d['e]sert. See 2d Desert.] Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island.
He . . . went aside privately into a desert place.
--Luke ix. 10.
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
--Gray.
Desert flora (Bot.), the assemblage of plants growing naturally in a desert, or in a dry and apparently unproductive place.
Desert hare (Zo["o]l.), a small hare ( Lepus sylvaticus, var. Arizon[ae]) inhabiting the deserts of the Western United States.
Desert mouse (Zo["o]l.), an American mouse ( Hesperomys eremicus), living in the Western deserts.
Wiktionary
n. ''Lepus californicus'', the black-tailed jackrabbit.
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Usage examples of "desert hare".
Servants began putting plates of food on the table at the Duke's gesture releasing them--roast desert hare in sauce cepeda, aplomage sirian, chukka under glass, coffee with melange (a rich cinnamon odor from the spice wafted across the table), a true pot-a-oie served with sparkling Caladan wine.
Servants began putting plates of food on the table at the Duke's gesture releasing them -- roast desert hare in sauce cepeda, aplomage sirian, chukka under glass, coffee with melange (a rich cinnamon odor from the spice wafted across the table), a true pot-a-oie served with sparkling Caladan wine.
With lithe movements, like a desert hare, Marha pushed herself close to one of the tense women whose hands and clothes were covered with fine brown powder.
Worms followed any vibration, and he had run like a terrified child instead of freezing in place like the wily desert hare.
The long table on the right is set for a banquet of roast desert hare in sauce cepeda.
The seals proved to be royal, the desert hare blazon of his Grace, the King of South Englas incised into rare purple wax.