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  • noun Plural form of cottontail.

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Examples

  • When we reached the ambulance the boys put a few cakes of hard bread in their pockets, and, taking their shot-guns, went out to look for some "cottontails" while supper was being prepared.

    Captured by the Navajos 1871

  • Q: will a cottontails eyeballs light up in the night with a good flash light? so I think that maine should be considered a yellow perch hotspot on some of our coldwater lakes, on saturday I caught 5 yellow

    I'm tired of the blame Bush politics 2009

  • Every morning in January 2007 there were a dozen jackrabbits and cottontails around the house, digging through the snow for frozen grass.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • This part of the country was too settled for large game, but Billy kept Saxon supplied with squirrels and quail, cottontails and jackrabbits, snipe and wild ducks.

    CHAPTER IX 2010

  • Those rabbits probably eat better than wild cottontails.

    Rabbit or Ramen Noodles? 2009

  • Q: will a cottontails eyeballs light up in the night with a good flash light? so I think that maine should be considered a yellow perch hotspot on some of our coldwater lakes, on saturday I caught 5 yellow

    just letting of some frustration 2009

  • Every morning in January 2007 there were a dozen jackrabbits and cottontails around the house, digging through the snow for frozen grass.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • Those rabbits probably eat better than wild cottontails.

    Rabbit or Ramen Noodles? 2009

  • Q: will a cottontails eyeballs light up in the night with a good flash light? so I think that maine should be considered a yellow perch hotspot on some of our coldwater lakes, on saturday I caught 5 yellow

    Grammar 2009

  • Q: will a cottontails eyeballs light up in the night with a good flash light? so I think that maine should be considered a yellow perch hotspot on some of our coldwater lakes, on saturday I caught 5 yellow

    Wild boar marinade 2009

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