DCHP-2
bush rabbit DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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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.
- 1920 In the Fraser Valley [of B.C.] the bush rabbits, or hares, suffer from the same complaint.