leporine

[lep-uh-rahyn, -rin]

adjective

Zoology.

1. of, relating to, or resembling a rabbit or hare.

leporine

/ ˈlɛpəˌraɪn /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or resembling a hare

Word History and Origins

Origin of leporine¹

First recorded in 1650–60; from Latin leporīnus, equivalent to lepor- (stem of lepus “hare”) + -īnus -ine ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of leporine¹

C17: from Latin leporīnus, from lepus hare

Example Sentences

"I make cameos in my films as dying animals," reveals the 41-year-old, who follows up his chilling leporine screech with the agonised low moan he gave an expiring deer in his previous directorial effort.

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A prominent set of front teeth and a prodigious appetite for carrots inspired Shaw’s brother, Kentardo, to coin her leporine nickname, which she loathed at first until she “grew into it”.

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This may be partially because of a decline in the local rabbit population due to rabbit calicivirus, a widespread leporine hemorrhagic disease.

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The secondary characters are somewhat disquieting: whose uncle, exactly, is Uncle Yawn, given that he’s human, not leporine?

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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.

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