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rabbit
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A mammal of the family ''Leporidae'', with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail. 2 The fur of a rabbit typically used to imitate another animal's fur. 3 A runner in a distance race whose goal is mainly to set the pace, either ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "young of the coney," from Walloon robète or a similar French dialect word, diminutive of Flemish or Middle Dutch robbe "rabbit," of unknown origin. "A Germanic noun with a French suffix" [Liberman]. The adult was a coney (q.v.) until 18c.Zoologically ...
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.