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Definition of Mouse hare

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mouse Hare

Literary usage of Mouse hare

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

1. Lhasa: An Account of the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the by Perceval Landon (1905)
"The mouse-hare is a little, tailless beast with small rounded ears. It is in shape rather like a guinea-pig, and is of about the size of a large rat. ..."

2. The Opening of Tibet: An Account of Lhasa and the Country and People of by Perceval Landon, Herbert James Walton, William Frederick Travers O'Connor, Francis Edward Younghusband (1905)
"The mouse-hare is a little, tailless beast with small rounded ears. It is in shape rather like a guinea-pig, and is of about the size of a large rat. ..."

3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"... the shrew-mouse. Hare-shore, n. a hare-lip. Hay-ud (Hayward), n. an officer whose duty it was (when the fields were unenclosed) to impound stray cattle, ..."

4. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"... the Pika, or Mouse-Hare, as Jerdon calls it. There are three fossil genera in the first family, viz. ..."

5. Lhasa: An Account of the Country and People of Central Tibet and of the by Perceval Landon (1905)
"The mouse-hare is a little, tailless beast with small rounded ears. It is in shape rather like a guinea-pig, and is of about the size of a large rat. ..."

6. The Opening of Tibet: An Account of Lhasa and the Country and People of by Perceval Landon, Herbert James Walton, William Frederick Travers O'Connor, Francis Edward Younghusband (1905)
"The mouse-hare is a little, tailless beast with small rounded ears. It is in shape rather like a guinea-pig, and is of about the size of a large rat. ..."

7. A Glossary of Words and Phrases Used in S. E. Worcestershire, Together with by Jesse Salisbury (1894)
"... n. the shrew-mouse. Hare-shore, n. a hare-lip. Hay-ud (Hayward), n. an officer whose duty it was (when the fields were unenclosed) to impound stray ..."

8. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"... the shrew-mouse. Hare-shore, n. a hare-lip. Hay-ud (Hayward), n. an officer whose duty it was (when the fields were unenclosed) to impound stray cattle, ..."

9. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"... the Pika, or Mouse-Hare, as Jerdon calls it. There are three fossil genera in the first family, viz. ..."

10. A Glossary of Words and Phrases Used in S. E. Worcestershire, Together with by Jesse Salisbury (1894)
"... n. the shrew-mouse. Hare-shore, n. a hare-lip. Hay-ud (Hayward), n. an officer whose duty it was (when the fields were unenclosed) to impound stray ..."

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