Definitions

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  • adjective Similar to a rabbit.
  • adjective Similar to that of a rabbit; as, rabbitlike ears, rabbitlike behavior, etc.

Etymologies

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rabbit +‎ -like

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Examples

  • Creatures under strain from climate change include the American pika, a rabbitlike animal that lives on talus, or broken rock, in western alpine mountain regions.

    Brenda Ekwurzel, Ph.D.: Small Creatures and Climate Change: How Warming Can "Shuffle the Deck" of Creatures That Thrive 2010

  • Creatures under strain from climate change include the American pika, a rabbitlike animal that lives on talus, or broken rock, in western alpine mountain regions.

    Brenda Ekwurzel, Ph.D.: Small Creatures and Climate Change: How Warming Can "Shuffle the Deck" of Creatures That Thrive 2010

  • The ones that hadn't been eaten yet were smoking over the fire, along with strips of meat from the small rabbitlike animals that Hywel and Darian had killed.

    Elephant in the City 2010

  • After two or three rabbitlike blinks, Herman scrambled away and disappeared to the rear of the shop.

    Blood Lite II: Overbite Kevin J. Anderson 2010

  • A little man with a bald head and one of those cowboy string ties runs around rabbitlike, talking into the sort of microphone head pieces that you see on movie directors or air traffic controllers.

    The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009

  • A little man with a bald head and one of those cowboy string ties runs around rabbitlike, talking into the sort of microphone head pieces that you see on movie directors or air traffic controllers.

    The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009

  • A little man with a bald head and one of those cowboy string ties runs around rabbitlike, talking into the sort of microphone head pieces that you see on movie directors or air traffic controllers.

    The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009

  • A little man with a bald head and one of those cowboy string ties runs around rabbitlike, talking into the sort of microphone head pieces that you see on movie directors or air traffic controllers.

    The Fortunes of Indigo Skye Deb Caletti 2009

  • Butters stared at Phil with horror, then let out a somewhat rabbitlike shriek and scurried back from him.

    Dead Beat Butcher, Jim 2005

  • Butters stared at Phil with horror, then let out a somewhat rabbitlike shriek and scurried back from him.

    Dead Beat Butcher, Jim 2005

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