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snowshoe rabbit

• the varying hare, so called because of the heavy winter feathering on its feet; also, in some areas, the Arctic hare.

  See also: Arctic hare  snowshoe hare  varying hare  

  • 1903  And leap by leap, like some pale frost wraith, the snowshoe rabbit flashed on ahead.
  • 1964  Snowshoe rabbits (hares) bounded across the road in our truck headlights going in, and again in the bright blue, dewless morning. . . .