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leporide

[ lep-uh-rid, -rahyd, -reed ]

noun

  1. a Belgian hare formerly believed to be a hybrid of the European rabbit and hare.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of leporide1

From French, dating back to 1875–80; leporid
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Example Sentences

I do not mean an ordinary half-breed, but a prolific hybrid similar to the leporide.

There were small long-eared hares, suggesting the leporide; sign of gazelles appeared; and the Bedawin spoke of wolves and hyenas, foxes and jackals.

The leporide fattens rapidly, and with but little expenditure of food.

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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