leporid

(ˈlɛpərɪd)

adj

(Zoology) of, relating to, or belonging to the Leporidae, a family of lagomorph mammals having long ears and limbs and a short tail: includes rabbits and hares

(Animals) any animal belonging to the family Leporidae

[C19: from Latin lepus hare]

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Noun

leporid - rabbits and hares

leporid mammal

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

family Leporidae, Leporidae - hares and rabbits

rabbit, cony, coney - any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food

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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2009: The eagle owl (Bubo bubo) as a leporid remains accumulator: taphonomic analysis of modern rabbit remains recovered from nests of this predator.

Taphonomic signature of Eurasian eagle owl (Bubo bubo) on fish remains

White and Garrott (1997) found kit fox space use was negatively correlated with leporid density, with counts similar to those observed by DeStefano (1990) related to the highest space use estimates reported.

Space Use and Cover Selection of Kit Foxes (Vulpes macrotis) at Their Distributional Periphery

This inaugural issue contains eight articles discussing such topics as the queen and the veil: a note about the Eblaic votive plaque, the northern and southern Levant during the late Early Bronze Age: a reappraisal of the "Syrian connection," the "outer town" of Ebla during the Old Syrian period: a preliminary analysis of the 2010 off-site survey, and a hare in the land of lions: analysis and interpretations of the leporid symbol in the Old Syrian Glyptic.

Studia Eblaitica: Studies on the Archaeology, History, and Philology of Ancient Syria; Volume 1 (2015)

Rounding out this Leporid selection is NCC 1964, a moderately tilted 10.7-magnitude spiral galaxy.

Hunting beneath the dog: or, how to catch a galaxy in Canis Major, Lepus, and Columba

The most recent compendia on the fauna of Paraguay list, collectively, 175 species of mammals, including three commensal Old World murid rodents (Mus musculus, Rattus norvegicus, and R rattus) and one introduced Eurasian leporid (Lepus europaeus) (Myers et al., 2002; Smith, 2014; de la Sancha and D'Elia, 2015).

Distribution and ecology of squirrels (Rodentia: Sciuridae) in Paraguay, with first country records for Sciurus Ignitus

(1995): "Comparison of leporid bones in raptor pellets, raptor nests, and archaeological sites in the Great Basin", North American Archaeologist, 16 (3), pp.

Releyendo el fenomeno de la neolitizacion en el Bajo Aragon a la luz de la excavacion del Cingle de Valmayor XI (Mequinenza, Zaragoza)

The Mexican cottontail is an endemic leporid to central Mexico.

El conejo Mexicano de monte (Sylvilagus cunicularius): una perspectiva historica de sucaza y del pastoreo, e implicaciones para planes de conservacion

Evolutionary history of an MHC gene in two leporid species: characterisation of Mhc-DQA in the European brown hare and comparison with the European rabbit.

Swine leukocyte antigen-DQA gene variation and its association with piglet diarrhea in Large White, Landrace and Duroc

Because stable carbon isotope ratios recovered from herbivore collagen reflect the isotopic composition of plants at the base of the food chain ingested during the last few years of its short life, leporid collagen should prove an ideal material for the reconstruction of the paleoenvironment at small spatial and short temporal scales.

Monitoring paleovegetation shifts through stable carbon isotope variability in archaeologically recovered leporids

Multiple substitutions affect the phylogenetic utility of cytochrome b and 12S rDNA data: examining a rapid radiation in leporid (Lagomorpha) evolution.

Holopelagic Poeobius meseres ("Poeobiidae," Annelida) is derived from benthic flabelligerid worms