cottontail rabbit

Questions about cottontail rabbit

What does cottontail rabbit mean?

cottontail rabbit 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)".

What is another word for cottontail rabbit?

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

cottontail rabbit 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.