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leveret

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lev·er·et  (lvr-t)
n.
A young hare, especially one less than a year old.

[Middle English, from Anglo-Norman, diminutive of levere, hare, from Latin lepus, lepor-.]

leveret [ˈlɛvərɪt -vrɪt]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a young hare, esp one less than one year old
[from Norman French levrete, diminutive of levre, from Latin lepus hare]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.leveret - a young hare especially one in its first year
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
Translations
leveret [ˈlevərɪt] Nlebrato m
leveret
njunger Hase, Häschen nt


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These interrogatives were addressed to the footman who had come in to say that the keeper had found one of Dagley's boys with a leveret in his hand just killed.
She hates the leveret that runs across the path; she hates everything that is not what she longs for.
Aye, this is indeed a pied merlin, and with a leveret under its claws, as I am a living woman.
 
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