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JACKRABBIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jackrabbit mean? 

JACKRABBIT (noun)
  The noun JACKRABBIT has 1 sense:

1. large hare of western North Americaplay

  Familiarity information: JACKRABBIT used as a noun is very rare.


JACKRABBIT (verb)
  The verb JACKRABBIT has 1 sense:

1. go forward or start with a fast, sudden movementplay

  Familiarity information: JACKRABBIT used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


JACKRABBIT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Large hare of western North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("jackrabbit" is a kind of...):

hare (swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs; young born furred and with open eyes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jackrabbit"):

Lepus townsendi; white-tailed jackrabbit; whitetail jackrabbit (largest hare of northern plains and western mountains of United States; brownish-grey in summer and pale grey in winter; tail nearly always all white)

blacktail jackrabbit; Lepus californicus (the common jackrabbit of grasslands and open areas of western United States; has large black-tipped ears and black streak on the tail)

Holonyms ("jackrabbit" is a member of...):

genus Lepus; Lepus (type genus of the Leporidae: hares)


JACKRABBIT (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Go forward or start with a fast, sudden movement

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "jackrabbit" is one way to...):

jump; start; startle (move or jump suddenly, as if in surprise or alarm)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s


 Context examples 


And then, one day, again out in the back-pasture, he saw Dick start a jackrabbit and run it.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

And thus he learned that there was no taboo on jackrabbits.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

A scamper across the pasture, a jackrabbit rising suddenly under the horse's feet, a violent sheer, a stumble, a fall to earth, and a broken leg for the master, was the cause of it.

(White Fang, by Jack London)



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