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leporide
[ lep-uh-rid, -rahyd, -reed ]
noun
- a Belgian hare formerly believed to be a hybrid of the European rabbit and hare.
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I do not mean an ordinary half-breed, but a prolific hybrid similar to the leporide.
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There were small long-eared hares, suggesting the leporide; sign of gazelles appeared; and the Bedawin spoke of wolves and hyenas, foxes and jackals.
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The leporide fattens rapidly, and with but little expenditure of food.
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The permanent breed should then be obtained by crossing the quadroon doe leporide, if I may use the term, with the half-bred buck.
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