arctic hare

1. 1.

   a large hare of northern North America; it is almost completely white in winter

   Synonymspolar hareLepus arcticus

   Broaderhare

   Part ofLepus

Questions about arctic hare

What does arctic hare mean?

arctic hare means "a large hare of northern North America; it is almost completely white in winter".

What is another word for arctic hare?

Close synonyms include polar hare, Lepus arcticus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is arctic hare a common word?

arctic hare is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.