Meaning of leporine | Babel Free

Definitions

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

also, figuratively, not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

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

“This [the harp seal] inhabits the ſame countries vvith the Rough and Leporine Seal; but loves the coldeſt parts of the coaſt.”

“Thus it is that one injustice generates another, and that the breed⟳ is propagated, with more than leporine fecundity, through every successive measure⟳ which these third-rate Legislators, these Statesmen in waiting, are sent to inflict upon Ireland.”

“[T]he fur [of the hispid hare] is very remarkable for an animal of the Leporine group, on account of its harshness, which is well expressed by the specific appellation hispidus.”

“I further give⟳ an anatomical systematic revision of the adult leporine tapeworms, together with their generic relationship to the cestodes of cattle, sheep, and horses.”

“Glad as she was to eat⟳ of the leporine family, she detested sport for sport's sake, even the fox-hunting, though her poultry-run had just been raided and a dog-fox had snarled fearlessly at Nip from the ditch.”

“This is basic Peter Rabbit economics that everyone can understand⟳ [quoting Thomas G. Ayers]. / Having little faith in economists, even leporine ones, I propose⟳ to examine⟳ Ayers' thesis carefully.”

“This curious passage begins with an intimation of a level of awareness in Uncle Remus, associated with his leporine "quick ear," which allows him to shift from the "senseless affair" into "a recitation of nonsense."”

“Mr Todd launched into a forceful disquisition, […] At last⟳ he stopped and sat gazing at her with the same desperate, leporine look⟳ as before, audibly breathing, his lips drawn back in a sort⟳ of leer and those teeth on show⟳ again.”

“The aforementioned rodent and leporine studies represented some of the first in vivo reports of intra-amniotic injection of fetal cells in mammals.”

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