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polar hare

• a species of large hare, Lepus arcticus, having white winter fur, found in the Barren Grounds.

  See also: Arctic hare  

  • 1823  The Polar hare appears to vary much in size, and consequently in weight.
  • 1866  In this respect it differs from the Polar-hare, the finer and softer fur of which is in winter pure white to the roots.
  • 1911  It was only a Polar Hare, the second we had seen; but its very scarceness here, at least this year, gave it unusual interest.