Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of or characteristic of rabbits or hares.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Pertaining to a hare; having the nature or qualities of the hare; lagomorphic.
- n. Same as leporide.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to a hare; like or characteristic of, a hare.
Etymologies
- Latin lepus ("hare") (Wiktionary)
- Latin leporīnus, from lepus, lepor-, hare. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Also, the pastel, leporine horror of Zombie Jesus Day has passed, and that's always a good thing.”
“But Ms. Wang says that in the days leading up to the Lunar New Year, Lao Ma Rabbit Head is seeing plenty of people hoping for some leporine good fortune.”
The Wall Street Journal: In China, Bunnies Are Multiplying Like Rabbits as Their Year Nears
“Boy: The Poached leporine duckies are delicious: D”
“You can pick up the odd book-related soft toy too, such as the Gruffalo and the rebel of the leporine world, Peter Rabbit.”
“After all, when better to enjoy a leporine cocktail?”
“It appeared to satisfy the leporine, who hurried on by.”
“The leporine alien spat harsh bunny noises at the human, then glanced past him and jabbered at Rail, who replied in something other than English.”
“[84] Dr. Marshall may tell us, with all the authority of an eminent physiologist, that hare-lip is occasioned by an arrest in the development of certain frontal and nasal processes, [85] and we may receive his explanation as a sweetly simple solution of the question; but who that suffers from this leporine-labial deformity would not prefer a supernatural to a natural cause?”
“Again I rejoice, beyond all count or measure, over the first leporine murder committed by myself, the same furthered by means of a rest on a forked tree.”
“By the turn of the century, an exasperated farming community began peddling 'Bunny Buster' burrow-fumigators, in the first of many organised industrial attempts to cull a rampant and destructive leporine population.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘leporine’.
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phrontistery - l
from phrontistery.info
labarum, labefactation, labeorphily, labidometer, labile, lability, labiomancy, labret, labrose, labtebricole, lac, laccolith and 496 more...
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Animal Descriptors
Do any of your friends eat like a pig? Sly like a fox? Fast as a cheetah? Maybe these words describe them better
erinaceous, alaudine, phocine, porcine, accipritine, acarine, alopecoid, anatine, anguine, anopheline, apian, arietine and 80 more...
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summer words 2009
how many words can I make mine this summer?
largess, hoyden, catholic, fornicatress, quean, slattern, bildungsroman, sybaritic, descresent, nodus, frittle, callipygian and 529 more...
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Professional Scrabble Lexicon (TWL)
A myriad of game-changing words every Scrabble addict must have in his arsenal.
Keep in mind that these are all tried-and-true feasibly playable words selected for their handiness, i.e...paragon, pignora, ganef, suttee, origan, ohia, aioli, abasement, lehr, mho, tallow, harelike and 843 more...
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Beastly adjectives
How would you describe your brother-in-law? Is he a tad bovine? Maybe there is something lacertilian about him? Or his business practices seem a little percesocine to you.
dasyproctine, tolypeutine, asinine, feline, canine, eusuchian, simian, musteline, cervine, caprine, percesocine, hirudine and 227 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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the omnibus
preponderance, idioglossia, acumen, heteronym, flux, anacoluthon, metonymy, impetus, constellation, exegesis, revelatory, cloistered and 877 more...
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Lolita
Words to remember from Nabokov's "Lolita"
concordance, limned, lurid, puerility, variorum, perspicacious, exigency, acrostic, solipsism, mnemosyne, involution, fatidic and 227 more...
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Animal-ine
feline, leonine, vulpine, canine, ranine, elephantine, serpentine, cervine, ovine, porcine, aquinine, asinine and 171 more...
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Lolita
Words compiled while reading Lolita
lolita, solecism, cognomen, etiolate, tendresse, expiatory, filch, paroxysm, arabesques, sibilant, manque, uranist and 181 more...
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5-0
Hecko, words! I’m so happy I’ve found you. I want to keep you all and never want to lose you again. I hope you like it here.
amscray, thistledown, tine, tinsel, pungent, snarl, wail, lanky, viscid, dawdle, luminous, stow and 2719 more...
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Ada, or Ardor ~Vladmir Nabokov
granoblastically, cicerone, aerocable, anachronistically, parvis, athwart, mnemonic, squitteroo, nusshaus, edelweiss, intermezzo, cabriole and 183 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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Animal Adjectives
Words like porcine and bovine. I'm collecting them.
porcine, bovine, corvine, ovine, vulpine, feline, canine, lupine, ursine, equine, vespine, oscine and 10 more...
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i know more than i knew before
Words learned and assimilated.
mackle, hummingbird, axenic, nacreous, atavic, suture, crepuscule, effluvium, dialectic, mythopoeia, leporine, caravansary and 13 more...
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Animal -ines cheat sheet
As I compiled this list, I thought it would be so much nicer to show a short definition with each. If I was looking for a particular animal, I would have to click each one which may or may not give...
vulpine, porcine, lupine, picine, lyncine, bovine, feline, equine, canine, leporine, asinine, piscine and 29 more...
Tweets
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Prolagus Labbro leporino ("leporine lip") is the Italian term for harelip. Mar 22, 2009
myth Of or characteristic of rabbits or hares. Mar 22, 2009