rabbit
兔子,兔肉,野兔,家兔
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Definitions
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plural rab·bits, rab·bit for 1-3.
- : any of several soft-furred, large-eared, rodentlike burrowing mammals of the family Leporidae, allied with the hares and pikas in the order Lagomorpha, having a divided upper lip and long hind legs, usually smaller than the hares and mainly distinguished from them by bearing blind and furless young in nests rather than fully developed young in the open.
- : any of various small hares.
- : the fur of a rabbit or hare, often processed to imitate another fur.
- : Welsh rabbit.
- : a runner in a distance race whose goal is chiefly to set a fast pace, either to exhaust a particular rival so that a teammate can win or to help another entrant break a record; pacesetter.
- : British Informal. a person who is poor at sports, especially golf, tennis, or cricket.
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Where does rabbit come from?
There’s just something about the names of some of the most familiar animals. Like dog, the origin of the word rabbit is obscure. But, at least we are few hops closer to a source with rabbit than we are with dog.Found in Middle English, rabbit originally meant “young rabbit, bunny,” and was most likely borrowed from a French word. Scholars point us to the Walloon robett and the dialectical Dutch robbe. But from there, it’s an etymological rabbit hole.Walloon is a French dialect chiefly spoken in southern and southeastern Belgium and neighboring regions in France.Unsure about the difference between a rabbit and a hare? We’ve got you covered!
Examples
If you trap a rabbit, you can tell whether it’s male or female.
“Downtown Chicago has an overabundance of rabbits,” says Gehrt.
Before coyotes moved in, human trappers had to work to keep rabbit populations under control.
In the 1990s, a team led by José Manuel Sánchez-Vizcaíno, a veterinarian then at the Animal Health Research Center in Madrid, created a recombinant live vaccine to protect rabbits from a lethal hemorrhagic disease.
If she successfully does, this might seem like a good indication that she understands what a rabbit is.
With Big Eyes a lot of people, myself included, were glad to see you emerge from the rabbit hole that is the CG world.
He eventually brings his wife and children over, and later he manages a hen and rabbit farm.
As the creator of Roger Rabbit, he eventually partnered with Walt Disney Pictures for a blockbuster animation film.
He weighed only 185 pounds, but he had killer instincts and rabbit quickness and the stamina of a mule.
Because when my rabbit died he was like, “Want a new rabbit?”
Why he did that, instead of walking around on the shore, Jimmy Rabbit couldn't understand.
"Farmer Green sometimes places scarecrows in the cornfield," Jimmy remarked.