cottontail

1. 1.

   common small rabbit of North America having greyish or brownish fur and a tail with a white underside; a host for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)

   Synonymswood rabbitcottontail rabbit

   Broaderrabbit

   Narrowereastern cottontailswamp rabbitmarsh hare

   Part ofSylvilagus

   Partsrabbit

Other forms of cottontail

plural

cottontails·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cottontail

What does cottontail mean?

cottontail means "common small rabbit of North America having greyish or brownish fur and a tail with a white underside; a host for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)".

How many syllables are in cottontail?

cottontail has 3 syllables: cot-ton-tail. The stress falls on "cot".

What is another word for cottontail?

Close synonyms include wood rabbit, cottontail rabbit. 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 cottontail a common word?

cottontail is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.