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Meanings of snowshoe rabbit in English
Portuguese
lepus americanus Large large-footed North American hare; white in winter.
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Examples for "snowshoe hare"
Examples for "snowshoe hare"
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The skin of a snowshoe hare peels easily off the carcass.
2
It shows the great bird's subtle plumage in exquisite detail, as it ascends above a rocky wilderness, gripping a snowshoe hare.
3
The cats are recognizable for well-furred paws that allow them to hunt in deep snow for their main prey, snowshoe hares.
4
The elusive animals have long legs and large, well-furred paws, making them highly adapted for hunting in deep snow for their principal prey, snowshoe hares.
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Because his coat changes so, he is called the varying Hare.
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Reports, 1845; H. M. Vernon, Variation in Animals and Plants (London, 1903) F. H. Welch, ''Winter Coat in Lepus americanus,'' Proc.
Usage of snowshoe rabbit in English
1
He came on a snowshoe rabbit and decided to take it.
2
Squatted there, staring at him with big round eyes, was a huge snowshoe rabbit.
3
And leap by leap, like some pale frost wraith, the snowshoe rabbit flashed on ahead.
4
As the snowshoe rabbit breeds all the summer through, Baree found himself in a land of plenty.
5
The marmots had descended into their burros, the snowshoe rabbit hopped, a lonely figure in the desolation, through the drifts.
6
Ninety-four Eskimos working in the Kodiak Islands of what was then the Territory of Alaska replenished the snowshoe rabbit population.
7
At the mouth of the Tahkeena, one night after supper, Dub turned up a snowshoe rabbit, blundered it, and missed.
8
Bounding into a thicket it went, when out of the other side there leaped a snowshoe rabbit, away and away for dear life.
9
Once, like another Crusoe, by the edge of the river he came upon a track-thefaint tracery of a snowshoe rabbit on the delicate snow-crust
10
They had made short work of the snowshoe rabbit, these dogs that were ill-tamed wolves; and they were now drawn up in an expectant circle.
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That is why you are often called a Snowshoe Rabbit.
12
Two big yellow-gray snowshoe rabbits came hopping lazily past, one just ahead of the other.
13
There were no ptarmigan, no squirrels, no snowshoe rabbits,-nothing
14
The snowshoe rabbits were completely buried under their windfalls and shelters, and lay quietly in their warm nests.
15
From Le Beau's traps he took only the living things, chiefly birds and squirrels and the big web-footed snowshoe rabbits.
16
He had broken through the melting snow-crust, and wallowed, while the snowshoe rabbits had skimmed along on top lightly as ever.