Definition of Arctic hare

1. Noun. A large hare of northern North America; it is almost completely white in winter.

Exact synonyms: Lepus Arcticus, Polar Hare
Group relationships: Genus Lepus, Lepus
Generic synonyms: Hare

Definition of Arctic hare

1. Noun. A North-American species of hare, ''Lepus arcticus''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Arctic Hare

arcsine
arcsines
arcsinh
arcsins
arctan
arctangent
arctangents
arctanh
arctans
arctation
arctations
arctic
arctic fox
arctic foxes
arctic front
arctic hare
arctic hares
arctic moss
arctic poppy
arctic raspberry
arctic regions
arctic roll
arctic rolls
arctic skua
arctic tern
arctic terns
arctic willow
arctically
arctics
arctiid

Literary usage of Arctic hare

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland: A Folklore Sketch; a Handbook of by William Gregory Wood Martin (1902)
"... found an Arctic vegetation supporting the Arctic hare and the reindeer, together with other ... Arctic hare ..."

2. The Discovery of the North-west Passage by Sir Robert John Le Mesurier McClure, Sherard Osborn (1857)
"The Arctic hare, and its Habits. — The Arctic Lemming, and its Habits. — Bears eat the Lemming. — The Ptarmigan. IT will not here be out of place to throw ..."

3. European Animals: Their Geological History and Geographical Distribution by Robert Francis Scharff (1907)
"If we assume that the southward extension occurred in Pleistocene times, it seems probable that the Arctic hare originated in the Arctic regions in Pliocene ..."

4. The History of the European Fauna by Robert Francis Scharff (1899)
"The presence of the Arctic hare in Ireland and the absence of the common European ... The Arctic hare is the older of the two species—corresponding with the ..."

5. The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe-journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou by Ernest Thompson Seton (1911)
"Keewatin Arctic hare. Although signs of Arctic hare were seen at a number of places from Artillery Lake northward, we observed only a very few of the ..."

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