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Definition of Marsh hare

1. Noun. A wood rabbit of marshy coastal areas from North Carolina to Florida.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Marsh Hare

Literary usage of Marsh hare

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

1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1901)
"Everybody connects the idea of fleetness with the hare, and most kinds of hares are very fleet; but the marsh-hare was never intended to find safety in ..."

2. American Animals: A Popular Guide to the Mammals of North America North of by Witmer Stone, William Everett Cram (1902)
"The marsh hare is an inhabitant of the low seaboard of our Southern States. ... Varieties of the marsh hare i. marsh hare. Lepus palustris Bachman. ..."

3. American Animals: A Popular Guide to the Mammals of North America North of by Witmer Stone, William Everett Cram (1902)
"Replaces the above in Greenland. Length. 18 inches. marsh hare Lepus ... The marsh hare is an inhabitant of the low seaboard of our Southern States. ..."

4. Journal Or the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1834)
"The largest marsh hare out of more than 50 that I have ... The tail of the Marsh hare is exceedingly short, its vertebrae being not more than an inch long, ..."

5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1837)
"A " marsh hare" from the ... How far either of these species ranges northwards, or whether they have been compared with the Florida marsh hare we know not. ..."

6. Report (1837)
"How far either of these species ranges northwards, or whether they have been compared with the Florida marsh hare we know not. ..."

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