| rabbit punch | a short chopping blow to the back of the neck |
paper chase
hare and hounds | an outdoor game, one group of players (the hares) start off on a long run scattering bits of paper (the scent) and pursuers (the hounds) try to catch them before they reach a designated spot |
rabbit-eared bandicoot
rabbit bandicoot
bilby
Macrotis lagotis | bandicoot with leathery ears like a rabbit |
hare wallaby
kangaroo hare | small Australian wallaby that resembles a hare and has persistent teeth |
sea hare
Aplysia punctata | naked marine gastropod having a soft body with reduced internal shell and two pairs of ear-like tentacles |
rabbit
coney cony | any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails, some domesticated and raised for pets or food |
| rabbit ears | the long ears of a rabbit |
bunny
bunny rabbit | (usually informal) especially a young rabbit |
European rabbit
Old World rabbit
Oryctolagus cuniculus | 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 |
wood rabbit
cottontail
cottontail rabbit | 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) |
swamp rabbit canecutter
swamp hare
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 |
| 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 |
European hare
Lepus europaeus | large hare introduced in North America, does not turn white in winter |
polar hare
Arctic hare
Lepus arcticus | a large hare of northern North America, it is almost completely white in winter |
snowshoe hare
snowshoe rabbit
varying hare
Lepus americanus | large large-footed North American hare, white in winter |
Belgian hare
leporide | red breed of domestic rabbits, hybrid between Old World rabbit and hare |
| Angora Angora rabbit | domestic breed of rabbit with long white silky hair |
pika
mouse hare
rock rabbit coney cony | small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America |
little chief hare
Ochotona princeps | North American pika |
rock hyrax
rock rabbit Procavia capensis | hyrax that lives in rocky areas |
| rabbit ears | an indoor TV antenna, consists of two extendible rods that form a V |
| rabbit hutch | a hutch for rabbits |
Friedman test
rabbit test | 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 |
| Hare Krishna | a chant to the Hindu god Krishna |
rabbit
hare | flesh of any of various rabbits or hares (wild or domesticated) eaten as food |
raw vegetable
rabbit food | an uncooked vegetable |
Welsh rarebit
Welsh rabbit
rarebit | cheese melted with ale or beer served over toast |
Hare Krishna
International Society for Krishna Consciousness
ISKCON | a religious sect founded in the United States in , based on Vedic scriptures, groups engage in joyful chanting of `Hare Krishna' and other mantras based on the name of the Hindu god Krishna, devotees usually wear saffron robes and practice vegetarianism and celibacy |
warren
rabbit warren | an overcrowded residential area |
rabbit burrow
rabbit hole | a hole in the ground as a nest made by wild rabbits |
warren
rabbit warren | a series of connected underground tunnels occupied by rabbits |
| Brer Rabbit | the fictional character of a rabbit who appeared in tales supposedly told by Uncle Remus and first published in |
| Hare Krishna | worshipper of Krishna and member of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness |
rabbit brush
rabbit bush
Chrysothamnus nauseosus | 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 |
rabbitweed
rabbit-weed
snakeweed
broom snakeweed
broom snakeroot
turpentine weed
Gutierrezia sarothrae | low-growing sticky subshrub of southwestern United States having narrow linear leaves on many slender branches and hundreds of tiny yellow flower heads |
rabbiteye blueberry
rabbit-eye blueberry
rabbiteye
Vaccinium ashei | shrub of southeastern United States grown commercially especially for canning industry |
hare's-foot bristle fern
Trichomanes boschianum | a variety of bristle fern |
golden polypody
serpent fern
rabbit's-foot fern
Phlebodium aureum
Polypodium aureum | tropical American fern with brown scaly rhizomes cultivated for its large deeply lobed deep bluish-green fronds, sometimes placed in genus Polypodium |
| hare's-foot fern | either of two ferns of the genus Davallia having a soft grey hairy rootstock |
Canary Island hare's foot fern
Davallia canariensis | fern of the Canary Islands and Madeira |
Australian hare's foot
Davallia pyxidata | a hare's-foot fern of the genus Davallia |
tularemia
tularaemia
rabbit fever
deer fly fever
yatobyo | a highly infectious disease of rodents (especially rabbits and squirrels) and sometimes transmitted to humans by ticks or flies or by handling infected animals |
lapin
rabbit | the fur of a rabbit |
rant
mouth off
jabber
spout
rabbit on
rave | talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner |
| rabbit | hunt rabbits |
| hare | run quickly, like a hare, He hared down the hill |
| rabbit-sized | having the approximate size of a rabbit |