| Main Entry: | hare |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rabbitlike animal |
Synonyms: |
coney, lagomorph, leveret |
| Notes: | hair is any of the cylindrical filaments characteristically growing from the epidermis of a mammal; a hare is a large, long-eared and long-legged rabbit; an heir is a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another 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 |
| 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 |