Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various plant-eating mammals of the order Lagomorpha, having fully furred feet and two pairs of upper incisors and including the rabbits, hares, and pikas.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun ny member of the Lagomorpha, a superfamily of rodents containing the hares and pikas.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) One of the Lagomorpha.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A member of the
mammalian taxonomic order ,Lagomorpha , which includeshares ,rabbits , andpikas .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun relative large gnawing animals; distinguished from rodents by having two pairs of upper incisors specialized for gnawing
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I aim to have viewed every captioned kitty and labelled lagomorph and readable rodent that the site has to offer before my tonsils have returned to their normal size.
Archive 2007-08-01 Calamity Jen 2007
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I aim to have viewed every captioned kitty and labelled lagomorph and readable rodent that the site has to offer before my tonsils have returned to their normal size.
I is sick Calamity Jen 2007
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The lagomorph, the largest ever seen, appears to have had reduced aerobic capacity and to have walked slowly rather than jumped quickly.
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Trackback by Prolagus's lagomorph soup — May 19, 2010 #
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But I'm a meek and scared lagomorph these days, and the acolytes at CA make my ears twitch, it is really annoying.
A Puzzler, where did Loehle go too far? EliRabett 2010
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Tim Lambert (aka Deltoid) calls Plimer out as Tim Lambert (aka Deltoid) calls Plimer out as Plimer the Plagerist, Ian Enting got a good laugh, but after 46 pages of listing Plimerrors was found rolling on the floor and had to be sedated, Eli Rabett, that excellent lagomorph, went out for a few jars of absinthe after a couple of paragraphs and has mercifully forgotten what he read.
Archive 2009-10-01 EliRabett 2009
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This is the primary way to distinguish a rodent from a lagomorph.
Open thread: questions and explanations - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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Tim Lambert (aka Deltoid) calls Plimer out as Tim Lambert (aka Deltoid) calls Plimer out as Plimer the Plagerist, Ian Enting got a good laugh, but after 46 pages of listing Plimerrors was found rolling on the floor and had to be sedated, Eli Rabett, that excellent lagomorph, went out for a few jars of absinthe after a couple of paragraphs and has mercifully forgotten what he read.
Rabett Run EliRabett 2009
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Other species recorded from the Kurile Islands include: six insectivores, six chiropterans, nine carnivores, nine rodents, and one lagomorph.
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I am, in fact, devoted to them: I belong to the alternate universe of lagomorph aficionados called The House Rabbit Society and own two free-roaming bunnies.
uselessness commented on the word lagomorph
Little bunny fou fou.
May 21, 2007
juv3nal commented on the word lagomorph
"I'm not a malefactor, I'm a lagomorph"
- Max of Sam & Max: Hit The Road
November 22, 2007
seanahan commented on the word lagomorph
hopping through the forest
November 22, 2007