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WOOD RABBIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wood rabbit mean? 

WOOD RABBIT (noun)
  The noun WOOD RABBIT has 1 sense:

1. 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)play

  Familiarity information: WOOD RABBIT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WOOD RABBIT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

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)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

cottontail; cottontail rabbit; wood rabbit

Hypernyms ("wood rabbit" is a kind of...):

coney; cony; rabbit (any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food)

Meronyms (parts of "wood rabbit"):

hare; rabbit (flesh of any of various rabbits or hares (wild or domesticated) eaten as food)

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

eastern cottontail; Sylvilagus floridanus (widely distributed in United States except northwest and far west regions)

canecutter; swamp hare; swamp rabbit; Sylvilagus aquaticus (a wood rabbit of southeastern United States swamps and lowlands)

marsh hare; swamp rabbit; Sylvilagus palustris (a wood rabbit of marshy coastal areas from North Carolina to Florida)

Holonyms ("wood rabbit" is a member of...):

genus Sylvilagus; Sylvilagus (North American rabbits)


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