leporine

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While I understand Justin's point about an overly restrictive definition of lying, his specific leporine example seems open to the following restatement.

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  • While I understand Justin's point about an overly restrictive definition of lying, his specific leporine example seems open to the following restatement. —  3quarksdaily
  • 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. —  The Singing Mouse Stories
  • Hodgson's description is: "Ursine arm; feline paw; profoundly cross-hinged, yet grinding jaw, and purely triturative and almost ruminant molar of _Ailurus_; tongue smooth; pupil round; feet enveloped in woolly socks with leporine completeness. —  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
 

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  1. Latin leporīnus, from lepus, lepor-, hare.

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  1. = Old French leporin, from Latin leporinus, of a hare, from lepus (lepor-), a hare: see Lepus.
 

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/ˈlɛpərɪn/
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