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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of Lagomyidæ.
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Examples
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In some parts the ground was full of holes, in which live lizards, a small, white bird, and a species of lagomys, all very plentiful.
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The lagomys, or tailless hare, of the European eaves, is now found in the colder regions of North America.
Atlantis : the antediluvian world Ignatius Donnelly 1866
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The lagomys, a species of rodent that does not occur in Sweden, of the size of a large rat, is remarkable for the care with which in summer it collects great stores for the winter.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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Here a large number of marmots and lagomys had their haunt.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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And yet under these familiar trees the lagomys or tailless hare, a form now mainly restricted to Siberia and the wilds of Northern America, and the reindeer, an animal whose proper habitat at the present time is
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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England haunted for ages by families of hyænas, -- that they dragged into their dens with the carcasses of long extinct animals those of the still familiar denizens of our hill-sides, and feasted, now on the lagomys, and now on the common hare, -- that they now fastened on the beaver or the reindeer, and now upon the roebuck or the goat.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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Among these fossil bones Cuvier has remarked the head of a _lagomys_, a little hare without any tail, — a species still existing in Siberia. [
Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester
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