RABBIT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does rabbit mean? 

• RABBIT (noun)
  The noun RABBIT has 3 senses:

1. any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food

2. the fur of a rabbit

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

  Familiarity information: RABBIT used as a noun is uncommon.

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

1. hunt rabbits

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RABBIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

coney; cony; rabbit

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

leporid; leporid mammal (rabbits and hares)

Meronyms (parts of "rabbit"):

scut (a short erect tail)

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

rabbit ears (the long ears of a rabbit)

lapin (castrated male rabbit)

bunny; bunny rabbit ((usually informal) especially a young rabbit)

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))

Belgian hare; leporide (red breed of domestic rabbits; hybrid between Old World rabbit and hare)

Angora; Angora rabbit (domestic breed of rabbit with long white silky hair)

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

warren (a colony of rabbits)

Derivation:

rabbit (hunt rabbits)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The fur of a rabbit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

lapin; rabbit

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

fur; pelt (the dressed hairy coat of a mammal)

Derivation:

rabbit (hunt rabbits)

Sense 3

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 ("rabbit" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("rabbit" 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)

Derivation:

rabbit (hunt rabbits)

• RABBIT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they rabbit    ... he / she / it rabbits   
Past simple: rabbitted   
Past participle: rabbitted   
-ing form: rabbitting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hunt rabbits

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

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

hunt; hunt down; run; track down (pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

In the summer they like to go out and rabbit

Derivation:

rabbit (any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food)

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

rabbit (the fur of a rabbit)

 Context examples 

"He was running a rabbit the last I saw of him."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

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.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

I then took my gun and strolled out in the direction of the Boscombe Pool, with the intention of visiting the rabbit warren which is upon the other side.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By the way, what was it you put into the wood-pile besides your old trousers? A dead dog, or rabbits, or what? You won’t tell? Dear me, how very unkind of you!

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They then extracted capsule from the two most abundant capsule types of ST258 and used them to generate antibodies in rabbits.

(Scientists describe potential antibody approach for treating multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae, National Institutes of Health)

Yet the warm blood of the rabbit tasted good in his mouth.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

"Little darling!—with her long curls and her blue eyes, and such a sweet colour as she has; just as if she were painted! Bessie, I could fancy a Welsh rabbit for supper."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A radioimmunoconjugate of a rabbit antihuman ferritin IgG labeled with iodine 131 (I-131).

(I 131 Antiferritin Immunoglobulin, NCI Thesaurus)

A New Zealand rabbit with black coat color and coat genotype Si, VV, E, D, C, B.

(New Zealand Black Rabbit, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Taxonomic family which includes rabbits and hares.

(Leporidae, NCI Thesaurus)