leporid


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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
n
(Animals) any animal belonging to the family Leporidae
[C19: from Latin lepus hare]
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Noun1.leporid - rabbits and hares
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.
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.
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.
Rounding out this Leporid selection is NCC 1964, a moderately tilted 10.7-magnitude spiral galaxy.
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).
(1995): "Comparison of leporid bones in raptor pellets, raptor nests, and archaeological sites in the Great Basin", North American Archaeologist, 16 (3), pp.
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.
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.
Multiple substitutions affect the phylogenetic utility of cytochrome b and 12S rDNA data: examining a rapid radiation in leporid (Lagomorpha) evolution.