Belgian hare
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Belgian hare
First recorded in 1895–1900
Example Sentences
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"Some of the time we talked about Belgian hare," answered Miss Sterling demurely.
From Polly and the Princess by Emma C. Dowd
Neale and Uncle Rufus made a proper pen for the Belgian hare in one end of the goat shed where Billy Bumps chewed his cud in lonely glory.
From The Corner House Girls on Palm Island by Thelma Gooch
Still, as Neale pointed out, it was little worse when considered as a house-pet than the Belgian hare.
From The Corner House Girls on Palm Island by Thelma Gooch
When a Belgian hare with large body was crossed to a common rabbit with a small body the hybrid was intermediate in size.
From A Critique of the Theory of Evolution by Thomas Hunt Morgan
The Belgian hare is a distant relation of the ordinary rabbit.
From Three Acres and Liberty by Bolton Hall
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