mouse hare

Questions about mouse hare

What does mouse hare mean?

mouse hare means "small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America".

What is another word for mouse hare?

Close synonyms include pika, rock rabbit, coney, cony. 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 mouse hare a common word?

mouse 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.