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HARE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs; young born furred and with open eyes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

leporid; leporid mammal (rabbits and hares)

Meronyms (parts of "hare"):

hare; rabbit (flesh of any of various rabbits or hares (wild or domesticated) eaten as food)

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

leveret (a young hare especially one in its first year)

European hare; Lepus europaeus (large hare introduced in North America; does not turn white in winter)

jackrabbit (large hare of western North America)

Arctic hare; Lepus arcticus; polar hare (a large hare of northern North America; it is almost completely white in winter)

Lepus americanus; snowshoe hare; snowshoe rabbit; varying hare (large large-footed North American hare; white in winter)

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

genus Lepus; Lepus (type genus of the Leporidae: hares)

Derivation:

hare (run quickly, like a hare)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Flesh of any of various rabbits or hares (wild or domesticated) eaten as food

Synonyms:

hare; rabbit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

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

game (the flesh of wild animals that is used for food)

Holonyms ("hare" is a part of...):

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))

hare (swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs; young born furred and with open eyes)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Run quickly, like a hare

Example:

He hared down the hill

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "hare" is one way to...):

run (move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time)

Sentence frames:

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Something is ----ing PP
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Derivation:

hare (swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs; young born furred and with open eyes)

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 Context examples: 

For snowshoe hares and 20 other species across the northern hemisphere, the white winter coats that once rendered them nearly invisible to predators now make them conspicuous to lynx, foxes, weasels and hawks.

(Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared, National Science Foundation)

With that they went into the castle together, and found a great many servants there, and the rooms all richly furnished, and full of golden chairs and tables; and behind the castle was a garden, and around it was a park half a mile long, full of sheep, and goats, and hares, and deer; and in the courtyard were stables and cow-houses.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Snowshoe hares have now made their way north to Alaska's shrubby environment beyond the state's forest tree line.

(Race across the tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare, National Science Foundation)

In a recent paper Mills asks how evolution has shaped the coat color trait for multiple species around the world, from hares to weasels to arctic fox.

(Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared, National Science Foundation)

The third day one of the messengers came back, and said, “I have travelled two days without hearing of any other names; but yesterday, as I was climbing a high hill, among the trees of the forest where the fox and the hare bid each other good night, I saw a little hut; and before the hut burnt a fire; and round about the fire a funny little dwarf was dancing upon one leg, and singing.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

In Alaska's far north, it's become the race of the white spruce tree and the snowshoe hare.

(Race across the tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare, National Science Foundation)

These mismatched hares showed up at the same time that climate modelers were announcing consistent and drastic decreases in seasonal snowfall across the Northern Hemisphere.

(Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared, National Science Foundation)

The little hare would eat a cabbage-leaf out of their hands, the roe grazed by their side, the stag leapt merrily by them, and the birds sat still upon the boughs, and sang whatever they knew.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

With greater numbers of hares feeding on spruce trees, fewer spruce seedlings were able to grow to adulthood.

(Race across the tundra: White spruce vs. snowshoe hare, National Science Foundation)

After Mills and his students published a series of papers describing the snowshoe hare coat color mismatch, its effect on survival, and how it is likely to increase under climate change, they turned their attention to a global perspective.

(Twenty-one species adapted to disappear in the snow. Then, the snow disappeared, National Science Foundation)