leporine

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of, relating to, or characteristic of a hare or a rabbit.

   “His leporine ears perked up at the mention of dessert.”

2. isim Synonym of leporid (“any mammal of the family Leporidae: the hares and rabbits”).

   “The most frequent intestinal parasite of rodents is probably Oxyuris ambigua, but Strong. retortæformis is tolerably abundant in the hare, and Trichocephalus unguiculatus is liable to occur in all leporines. […] Acari infest rats and mice, and especially leporines.”

3. isim A supposed hybrid between a hare and a rabbit, now known not to exist; a leporide.

   “[…] [Charles] Darwin was intrigued by contemporary experiments claiming to have produced hare–rabbit crosses or ‘leporines’ (‘most curious, if true’), […] [T]hose supporting the existence of leporines were giving credence to a creature as actually imposible and fabulous as the horned hare.”