| Main Entry: | rabbit |
| 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 |