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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Orion and Columba.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The representative and only extant genus of Leporidæ.
  • noun An ancient southern constellation, situated south of Orion and east of Canis Major.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The type genus of the Leporidae, comprising the hares.

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  • proper noun A taxonomic genus within the family Leporidae — the hares and jackrabbits.
  • proper noun astronomy A winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a rabbit. It lies south of the constellation Orion.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun type genus of the Leporidae: hares
  • noun a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Orion and Columba

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Latin, from lepus, hare.]

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Latin lepus ("hare")

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From Latin lepus, a "rabbit, hare"

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