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rabbit
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Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha , found in several parts of the world. There are eight different genera in the family classified as rabbits, including the European rabbit ( Oryctolagus cuniculus ), cottontail rabbits ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rabbit \Rab"bit\ (r[a^]b"b[i^]t), n. [OE. rabet, akin to OD. robbe, robbeken.] (Zo["o]l.) Any of the smaller species of the genus Lepus, especially the common European species ( Lepus cuniculus ), which is often kept as a pet, and has been introduced into ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food [syn: coney , cony ] the fur of a rabbit [syn: lapin ] flesh of any of various rabbits or hares (wild or domesticated) ...
Usage examples of rabbit.
They were maras, a sort of agouti, a little larger than their congeners of tropical countries, regular American rabbits, with long ears, jaws armed on each side with five molars, which distinguish the agouti.
On these same plains of La Plata, we see the agouti and bizcacha, animals having nearly the same habits as our hares and rabbits and belonging to the same order of Rodents, but they plainly display an American type of structure.
Life had not dealt fairly with him to make him the eighth and little-prized son of an ambitionless man, a thane of moderate rank who could do nothing but breed on his long-suffering wife like a jack rabbit.
Despite the circumstances, Erik found himself staring at the almond-skin color of the broad areolar rings around her nipples, like a snake-hypnotized rabbit.
Amice more closely resembled a terrified rabbit, constantly atwitch over something.
A rabbit snare is made of fine babiche, sinew, cord, or wire, and the loop is hung over a rabbit runway just high enough to catch it round the neck.
Brer Rabbit did get caught up with, and it cooled him off like pooring spring water on one of these biggity fires.
Brer Rabbit did get caught up with, and it cooled him off like pouring spring water on one of these biggity fires.
Other fauna boasted by the local biome included marsh rabbits, deer, river otters, a night bird called a clapper rail, and the rare bobcat.
Mipps would pull a blunderbuss at a man as soon as I would at a rabbit.
Three of the men carried packs with light supplies of food, but Brode said they could scavenge well enough while in the forest, and once on the tundra there would likely be snow rabbits and birds they could catch for their supper.
Wolfer has been successful in transplanting the mucous membranes of frogs, rabbits, and pigeons to a portion of mucous membrane previously occupied by cicatricial tissue, and was the first to show that on mucous surfaces, mucous membrane remains mucous membrane, but when transplanted to skin, it becomes skin.
If Rabbit had embezzled in the heat of Clea, it was going to be difficult to cool him down again.
If it was hard being a small boy in a time of rapid change, it was a doubly hard burden to be a meter-tall rabbit cursed with human sentience and cunicular instincts.
Like some victorious general swept on by the momentum of his first bloody success, he began shooting diphtheria microbes, and iodine tri-chloride, and the poison of diphtheria microbes, into rabbits, into sheep, into dogs.