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| agouti |
any of several related nocturnal, burrowing rodents found in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere that are about the size of a rabbit but have short ears and grizzled fur. |
| Angora |
any of various animals that have long silky hair, such as a cat, rabbit, or goat. [2/3 definitions] |
| buck1 |
an adult male deer, goat, or rabbit. Adult males of some similar animals are also called bucks. |
| bunny |
(informal) an animal with long ears, a short tail, and soft fur; a young rabbit. |
| castor1 |
a beaver fur or rabbit fur hat. [1/2 definitions] |
| cony |
a rabbit or rabbitlike animal such as a pika. [2 definitions] |
| cottontail |
a kind of rabbit that has brown or gray fur and a fluffy white tail. Cottontails live in North and South America. |
| doe |
an adult female deer, goat, or rabbit. Adult females of some similar animals are also called does. |
| Easter bunny |
in folklore, a rabbit that brings Easter eggs, candy, presents, or the like for children for Easter; Easter rabbit. |
| fur |
the soft thick hair that covers the bodies of certain animals such as a bear or rabbit. [1/2 definitions] |
| hare |
any of various plant-eating mammals that resemble and are related to the rabbit, but that usu. are larger and have longer ears and hind legs. |
| hasenpfeffer |
a peppery stew of marinated rabbit. |
| Himalayan |
any of a breed of small domestic rabbit that has white fur except on the nose, feet, tail, and tips of the ears, which are dark. [1/3 definitions] |
| hutch |
a pen or shelter, esp. for a small animal such as a rabbit. [1/4 definitions] |
| lapin |
a rabbit or its fur, esp. as prepared for wear as clothing. |
| rabbit's foot |
the hind foot of a rabbit, sometimes carried as a good luck charm. |
| rarebit |
see "Welsh rabbit." |
| rat kangaroo |
any of various small ratlike kangaroos that are about the size of a rabbit. |
| scut |
a short stubby tail, as of a rabbit or deer. |
| snowshoe hare |
a large hare of northern North America that has broad feet and fur that is white in winter and brown in summer; snowshoe rabbit. |
| tularemia |
a contagious plaguelike disease involving fever and swelling of the lymph nodes, found esp. among rabbits, squirrels, and the like, and sometimes transmitted to humans; rabbit fever. |
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