Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A variety of the domesticated rabbit, supposed to be a hybrid between the rabbit (Lepus cuniculus) and the hare (L. timidus), and also known as the Belgian, hare.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun red breed of domestic rabbits, also called
Belgian hare .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun red breed of domestic rabbits; hybrid between Old World rabbit and hare
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Examples
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There were small long-eared hares, suggesting the leporide; sign of gazelles appeared; and the Bedawin spoke of wolves and hyenas, foxes and jackals.
The Land of Midian 2003
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The permanent breed should then be obtained by crossing the quadroon doe leporide, if I may use the term, with the half-bred buck.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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The leporide fattens rapidly, and with but little expenditure of food.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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M. Roux has bred this hybrid during the last eighteen years, and has not observed the slightest appearance of decay of race manifest itself up to the present, so that, for all practical purposes, the leporide may be regarded as an addition to the distinct species of animals.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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I do not mean an ordinary half-breed, but a prolific hybrid similar to the leporide.
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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I have directed attention to the production of the leporide because
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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There were small long-eared hares, suggesting the leporide; sign of gazelles appeared; and the Bedawin spoke of wolves and hyenas, foxes and jackals.
The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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This hybrid has received the name of leporide (from the Latin _leporinus_, pertaining to
The Stock-Feeder's Manual the chemistry of food in relation to the breeding and feeding of live stock Charles Alexander Cameron 1875
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