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CONY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food

Synonyms:

coney; cony; rabbit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("cony" is a kind of...):

leporid; leporid mammal (rabbits and hares)

Meronyms (parts of "cony"):

scut (a short erect tail)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cony"):

rabbit ears (the long ears of a rabbit)

lapin (castrated male rabbit)

bunny; bunny rabbit ((usually informal) especially a young rabbit)

European rabbit; Old World rabbit; Oryctolagus cuniculus (common greyish-brown burrowing animal native to southern Europe and northern Africa but introduced elsewhere; widely domesticated and developed in various colors and for various needs; young are born naked and helpless)

cottontail; cottontail rabbit; wood rabbit (common small rabbit of North America having greyish or brownish fur and a tail with a white underside; a host for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks))

Belgian hare; leporide (red breed of domestic rabbits; hybrid between Old World rabbit and hare)

Angora; Angora rabbit (domestic breed of rabbit with long white silky hair)

Holonyms ("cony" is a member of...):

warren (a colony of rabbits)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America

Synonyms:

coney; cony; mouse hare; pika; rock rabbit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("cony" is a kind of...):

gnawing mammal; lagomorph (relative large gnawing animals; distinguished from rodents by having two pairs of upper incisors specialized for gnawing)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cony"):

little chief hare; Ochotona princeps (North American pika)

collared pika; Ochotona collaris (similar to little chief hare and may be same species)

Holonyms ("cony" is a member of...):

family Ochotonidae; Ochotonidae (pikas and extinct forms)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes

Synonyms:

coney; cony; das; dassie; hyrax

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("cony" is a kind of...):

eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cony"):

Procavia capensis; rock hyrax; rock rabbit (hyrax that lives in rocky areas)

Holonyms ("cony" is a member of...):

family Procaviidae; Procaviidae (includes all recent members of the order Hyracoidea)

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