Type genus of the Leporidae: hares.
1 Below Orion is Lepus , the Hare, a small constellation containing some remarkable doubles.
2 This is remarkable, as Gervais gives seven as the number for the whole genus Lepus .
3 The gods surrounded Orion with celestial animals for him to hunt; Lepus , the rabbit, and Taurus, the bull.
4 A single fragment of the bone of a hare ( Lepus timidus) has been found at Moosseedorf.
5 Even its Latin name, bestowed in 1759 by the great Swedish scientist Carl Linneaus, reflects its watchful nature: Lepus timidus.
6 He has licensed five months of this cruel and discredited blood sport, despite claiming to be a keen admirer of Lepus Timidus Hibernicus.
7 An adult male hare ( Lepus brachyurus angustidens) was discovered in a moribund condition in the bush in the mountains of Aomori prefecture in Japan.
8 Reports, 1845; H. M. Vernon, Variation in Animals and Plants (London, 1903) F. H. Welch, ''Winter Coat in Lepus americanus,'' Proc.
9 Lepus = Julius Hare, author of "Guesses at Truth."
10 LEPUS . - One of the southern constellations, placed near Orion, according to Grecian fable, because it was one of the animals which he hunted.
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