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Found 1 definition: rabbit.

Pos: Noun, Verb (intransitive)

[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun rabbit has 3 senses

1. rabbit(n = noun.animal) coney, cony - any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food;
is a kind of leporid, leporid mammal
has parts: scut
is a member of warren
has particulars: rabbit ears, lapin, bunny, bunny rabbit, european rabbit, old world rabbit, oryctolagus cuniculus, cottontail, cottontail rabbit, wood rabbit, belgian hare, leporide, angora, angora rabbit
Derived form verb rabbit₁

2. rabbit(n = noun.substance) lapin - the fur of a rabbit;
is a kind of fur, pelt
Derived form verb rabbit₁

3. rabbit(n = noun.food) hare - flesh of any of various rabbits or hares (wild or domesticated) eaten as food;
is a kind of game
is a part of european rabbit, old world rabbit, oryctolagus cuniculus, cottontail, cottontail rabbit, wood rabbit, hare
Derived form verb rabbit₁

Verb rabbit has 1 senses

rabbit(v = verb.competition) - hunt rabbits;
is one way to hunt, hunt down, run, track down
Derived forms noun rabbit₁, noun rabbit₃, noun rabbit₂
Sample sentences: In the summer they like to go out and rabbit

[CIDE DICTIONARY]

rabbit, n. [OE. rabet, akin to OD. robbe, robbeken.].

Any of the smaller species of the genus Lepus, especially the common European species (Lepus cuniculus), which is often kept as a pet, and has been introduced into many countries. It is remarkably prolific, and has become a pest in some parts of Australia and New Zealand. [1913 Webster]
" The common American rabbit (Lepus sylvatica) is similar but smaller. See Cottontail, and Jack rabbit, under 2d Jack. The larger species of Lepus are commonly called hares. See Hare." [1913 Webster]

Angora rabbit (Zoöl.), a variety of the domestic rabbit having long, soft fur. -- Rabbit burrow, a hole in the earth made by rabbits for shelter and habitation. -- Rabbit fish. (Zoöl.) (a) The northern chimæra (Chimæra monstrosa). (b) Any one of several species of plectognath fishes, as the bur fish, and puffer. The term is also locally applied to other fishes. -- Rabbits' ears. (Bot.) See Cyclamen.<-- a type of antenna with two long narrow metal prongs, usually arranged so as to remeniscent of erect rabbit's ears. --> -- Rabbit warren, a piece of ground appropriated to the breeding and preservation of rabbits. Wright. -- Rock rabbit. (a) (Zoöl.) See Daman, and Klipdas. (b) the pika. -- Welsh rabbit, a dish of which the chief constituents are melted cheese over toasted bread, flavored in various ways, as with ale, beer, milk, or spices. The name is popularly said to be a corruption of Welsh rare bit, but it is probably merely a humorous designation; -- also called Welsh rarebit.

[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

rabbit, n. & v.
--n.
1 a any of various burrowing gregarious plant-eating mammals of the hare family, esp. Oryctolagus cuniculus, with long ears and a short tail, varying in colour from brown in the wild to black and white, and kept as a pet or for meat. b US a hare. c the fur of the rabbit.
2 Brit. colloq. a poor performer in any sport or game.
--v.intr. (rabbited, rabbiting)
1 hunt rabbits.
2 (often foll. by on, away) Brit. colloq. talk excessively or pointlessly; chatter (rabbiting on about his holiday).

Idiom:
rabbit punch a short chop with the edge of the hand to the nape of the neck. rabbit warren an area in which rabbits have their burrows, or are kept for meat etc.

Derivative:
rabbity adj.

Etymology:
ME perh. f. OF: cf. F dial. rabotte, Walloon rob{egrave}te, Flem. robbe

[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Productiveness

N productiveness, fecundity, fertility, luxuriance, uberty, pregnancy, pullulation, fructification, multiplication, propagation, procreation, superfetation, milch cow, rabbit, hydra, warren, seed plot, land flowing with milk and honey, second crop, aftermath, aftercrop, aftergrowth, arrish, eddish, rowen, protoplasm, fertilization, productive, prolific, teeming, teemful, fertile, fruitful, frugiferous, fruit-bearing, fecund, luxuriant, pregnant, uberous, procreant, procreative, generative, life-giving, spermatic, multiparous, omnific, propagable, parturient, profitable.