DCHP-1 Online

bush rabbit

• a species of hare, Lepus americanus, especially common in the North, so called because its fur is brown in summer and white in winter.

  See also: varying hare  

  • 1920  In the Fraser Valley [of B.C.] the bush rabbits, or hares, suffer from the same complaint.
  • 1963  The great majority [of coyotes] live on hares (the so-called jack and bush rabbits of the West), mice, gophers, and carrion of all kinds.