HARE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hare mean? 

• HARE (noun)
  The noun HARE has 2 senses:

1. swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs; young born furred and with open eyes

2. flesh of any of various rabbits or hares (wild or domesticated) eaten as food

  Familiarity information: HARE used as a noun is rare.

• HARE (verb)
  The verb HARE has 1 sense:

1. run quickly, like a hare

  Familiarity information: HARE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HARE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs; young born furred and with open eyes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("hare" is a kind of...):

leporid; leporid mammal (rabbits and hares)

Meronyms (parts of "hare"):

hare; rabbit (flesh of any of various rabbits or hares (wild or domesticated) eaten as food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hare"):

leveret (a young hare especially one in its first year)

European hare; Lepus europaeus (large hare introduced in North America; does not turn white in winter)

jackrabbit (large hare of western North America)

Arctic hare; Lepus arcticus; polar hare (a large hare of northern North America; it is almost completely white in winter)

Lepus americanus; snowshoe hare; snowshoe rabbit; varying hare (large large-footed North American hare; white in winter)

Holonyms ("hare" is a member of...):

genus Lepus; Lepus (type genus of the Leporidae: hares)

Derivation:

hare (run quickly, like a hare)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Flesh of any of various rabbits or hares (wild or domesticated) eaten as food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

hare; rabbit

Hypernyms ("hare" is a kind of...):

game (the flesh of wild animals that is used for food)

Holonyms ("hare" is a part of...):

European rabbit; Old World rabbit; Oryctolagus cuniculus (common greyish-brown burrowing animal native to southern Europe and northern Africa but introduced elsewhere; widely domesticated and developed in various colors and for various needs; young are born naked and helpless)

cottontail; cottontail rabbit; wood rabbit (common small rabbit of North America having greyish or brownish fur and a tail with a white underside; a host for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks))

hare (swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs; young born furred and with open eyes)

• HARE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hare    ... he / she / it hares   
Past simple: hared   
Past participle: hared   
-ing form: haring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Run quickly, like a hare

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Context example:

He hared down the hill

Hypernyms (to "hare" is one way to...):

run (move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

hare (swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs; young born furred and with open eyes)

 Context examples 

The filter was especially evident after the last hare population peak in 2009.

(Race across the tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare, National Science Foundation)

You will find near this place, if you follow not too tardily, a dead hare; eat and be refreshed.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Taxonomic family which includes rabbits and hares.

(Leporidae, NCI Thesaurus)

The taxonomic order of mammals which include hares, rabbits and pikas.

(Lagomorpha, NCI Thesaurus)

When the wolf was gone, came a dog, a stag, a hare, a bear, a lion, and all the beasts of the forest, one after the other.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Biologist Scott Mills of the University of Montana, who began studying snowshoe hares in the 1990s, says finding them has become much easier as average winter snow duration has decreased over time.

(Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared, National Science Foundation)

I am tenderhearted by nature, and have found my eyes moist many a time over the scream of a wounded hare.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

How often, at hare and hounds, have I seen him mounted on a little knoll, cheering the whole field on to action, and waving his hat above his grey head, oblivious of King Charles the Martyr's head, and all belonging to it!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

More than once, however, they came on families by the wayside, who were too weak from hunger and disease to fly, so that they could but sit like hares on a tussock, with panting chests and terror in their eyes.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As spruce trees follow behind, they must pass through a "snowshoe hare filter."

(Race across the tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare, National Science Foundation)