Definitions

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

  • adjective Of or characteristic of rabbits or hares.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to a hare; having the nature or qualities of the hare; lagomorphic.
  • noun Same as leporide.

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

  • adjective (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to a hare; like or characteristic of, a hare.

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  • adjective of, relating to, or resembling a hare or rabbit.

Etymologies

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

[Latin leporīnus, from lepus, lepor-, hare.]

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Latin lepus ("hare")

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Examples

  • Boy: The Poached leporine duckies are delicious: D

    VOTD: Kuky Returns Trailer | /Film 2010

  • You can pick up the odd book-related soft toy too, such as the Gruffalo and the rebel of the leporine world, Peter Rabbit.

    Independent bookshops in south-east England 2011

  • Also, the pastel, leporine horror of Zombie Jesus Day has passed, and that's always a good thing.

    "Only mustard isn't a bird," Alice remarked. greygirlbeast 2010

  • But Ms. Wang says that in the days leading up to the Lunar New Year, Lao Ma Rabbit Head is seeing plenty of people hoping for some leporine good fortune.

    In China, Bunnies Are Multiplying Like Rabbits as Their Year Nears Laurie Burkitt 2011

  • Also, the pastel, leporine horror of Zombie Jesus Day has passed, and that's always a good thing.

    "Only mustard isn't a bird," Alice remarked. greygirlbeast 2010

  • After all, when better to enjoy a leporine cocktail?

    The Apple of Their Eye 2008

  • The leporine alien spat harsh bunny noises at the human, then glanced past him and jabbered at Rail, who replied in something other than English.

    Glory Lane Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1987

  • It appeared to satisfy the leporine, who hurried on by.

    Glory Lane Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1987

  • [84] Dr. Marshall may tell us, with all the authority of an eminent physiologist, that hare-lip is occasioned by an arrest in the development of certain frontal and nasal processes, [85] and we may receive his explanation as a sweetly simple solution of the question; but who that suffers from this leporine-labial deformity would not prefer a supernatural to a natural cause?

    Moon Lore Timothy Harley

  • Again I rejoice, beyond all count or measure, over the first leporine murder committed by myself, the same furthered by means of a rest on a forked tree.

    The Singing Mouse Stories Emerson Hough 1890

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  • Of or characteristic of rabbits or hares.

    March 22, 2009

  • Labbro leporino ("leporine lip") is the Italian term for harelip.

    March 22, 2009