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Lepus

noun
1.
A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Orion and Columba.
2.
Type genus of the Leporidae: hares.  Synonym: genus Lepus.



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Lepus americanus
Lepus arcticus
Lepus californicus
Lepus europaeus
Lepus townsendi


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"Lepus" Quotes from Famous Books



... on March 20, 1826, "My tirade against visitors was not meant particularly at you or A.K. I scarce know what I meant, for I do not just now feel the grievance. I wanted to make an article." Compare the first of the "Lepus" papers in ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, Volume 2 • Charles Lamb
... what the note refers. It is quite likely, Mr. J.A. Rutter suggests, that Hill the drysalter, a famous busy-body, and a friend of Theodore Hook, stood for the portrait of Tom Pry in Lamb's "Lepus Papers" (see Vol. I.). S.C. Hall, in his Book of Memories, says of Hill that "his peculiar faculty was to find out what everybody did, from a minister of ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Vol. 6) - Letters 1821-1842 • Charles and Mary Lamb


Words linked to "Lepus" :   family Leporidae, constellation, mammal genus, jackrabbit, Arctic hare, Leporidae, European hare, polar hare, hare


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