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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | animal |
| Synonyms: | buck, bunny, capon, chinchilla, coney, cony, cottontail, cuniculus, doe, hare, lagomorph, lapin, rodent |
| Notes: | hares live in the open and bear young that have fur at birth, while rabbits live in burrows and bear young that are naked at birth; jackrabbits are hares, not rabbits when rabbit came into English, it only applied to the young of the animal, with the adult rabbit being called a cony |
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