rabbit : Idioms & Phrases

• noun domestic breed of rabbit with long white silky hair
  Angora.
  

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• noun the fictional character of a rabbit who appeared in tales supposedly told by Uncle Remus and first published in 1880
  

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• noun (usually informal) especially a young rabbit
  bunny.
  

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• noun common small rabbit of North America having greyish or brownish fur and a tail with a white underside; a host for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)
  cottontail; cottontail rabbit.
  

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• noun common greyish-brown burrowing animal native to southern Europe and northern Africa but introduced elsewhere; widely domesticated and developed in various colors and for various needs; young are born naked and helpless
  Oryctolagus cuniculus; European rabbit.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of large American hares, having very large ears and long legs. The California species (Lepus Californicus), and that of Texas and New Mexico (L. callotis), have the tail black above, and the ears black at the tip. They do not become white in winter. The more northern prairie hare (L. campestris) has the upper side of the tail white, and in winter its fur becomes nearly white.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.). See Jack rabbit, under 2d Jack, n.

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• (Zoöl.), an Australian marsupial (Perameles lagotis) resembling a rabbit in size and form.

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• noun common greyish-brown burrowing animal native to southern Europe and northern Africa but introduced elsewhere; widely domesticated and developed in various colors and for various needs; young are born naked and helpless
  Oryctolagus cuniculus; European rabbit.
  

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• noun bandicoot with leathery ears like a rabbit
  Macrotis lagotis; rabbit bandicoot; bilby.
  

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• noun pleasantly aromatic shrub having erect slender flexible hairy branches and dense clusters of small yellow flowers covering vast areas of western alkali plains and affording a retreat for jackrabbits; source of a yellow dye used by the Navajo
  Chrysothamnus nauseosus; rabbit brush.
  

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• noun a hole in the ground as a nest made by wild rabbits
  rabbit burrow.
  

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• noun pleasantly aromatic shrub having erect slender flexible hairy branches and dense clusters of small yellow flowers covering vast areas of western alkali plains and affording a retreat for jackrabbits; source of a yellow dye used by the Navajo
  Chrysothamnus nauseosus; rabbit brush.
  

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• noun an indoor TV antenna; consists of two extendible rods that form a V
  
• noun the long ears of a rabbit
  

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• noun a highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals
  deer fly fever; tularemia; tularaemia; yatobyo.
  

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• noun an uncooked vegetable
  raw vegetable.
  

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• noun a hole in the ground as a nest made by wild rabbits
  rabbit burrow.
  

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• noun a hutch for rabbits
  

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• verb talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
  spout; rant; rave; mouth off; jabber.
  

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• noun a short chopping blow to the back of the neck
  

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• noun pregnancy test that involves injecting some of the woman's urine into an unmated female rabbit and later examining the ovaries of the rabbit; presence of corpora lutea indicates that the woman is pregnant
  Friedman test.
  

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• noun an overcrowded residential area
  warren.
  
• noun a series of connected underground tunnels occupied by rabbits
  warren.
  

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• noun tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds; sometimes placed in genus Polypodium
  Phlebodium aureum; Polypodium aureum; serpent fern; golden polypody.
  

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• noun bandicoot with leathery ears like a rabbit
  Macrotis lagotis; rabbit bandicoot; bilby.
  

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• noun shrub of southeastern United States grown commercially especially for canning industry
  rabbiteye blueberry; Vaccinium ashei; rabbiteye.
  

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• adjective satellite having the approximate size of a rabbit
  

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• noun low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads
  Gutierrezia sarothrae; rabbitweed; snakeweed; broom snakeroot; turpentine weed; broom snakeweed.
  

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• noun hyrax that lives in rocky areas
  rock hyrax; Procavia capensis.
  
• noun small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America
  mouse hare; cony; pika; coney.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the hyrax. See Cony, and Daman.

Webster 1913

• (Zoöl.), a species of hare (Lepus Nuttalli, ∨ artemisia) which inhabits the regions of Western North America and lives among sagebrush. By recent writers it is considered to be merely a variety of the common cottontail, or wood rabbit.

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• noun large large-footed North American hare; white in winter
  snowshoe hare; Lepus americanus; varying hare.
  

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• noun a wood rabbit of marshy coastal areas from North Carolina to Florida
  marsh hare; Sylvilagus palustris.
  
• noun a wood rabbit of southeastern United States swamps and lowlands
  canecutter; Sylvilagus aquaticus; swamp hare.
  

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Wa"ter rab"bit

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1. (Zoöl.) See Water hare.

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• noun cheese melted with ale or beer served over toast
  Welsh rarebit; rarebit.
  

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• . See under Rabbit.

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) The American northern hare in its winter pelage. (b) An albino rabbit.

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• noun common small rabbit of North America having greyish or brownish fur and a tail with a white underside; a host for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)
  cottontail; cottontail rabbit.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the cottontail.

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