swamp rabbit

Questions about swamp rabbit

What does swamp rabbit mean?

swamp rabbit means "a wood rabbit of marshy coastal areas from North Carolina to Florida". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for swamp rabbit?

Close synonyms include marsh hare, Sylvilagus palustris, canecutter, swamp hare, Sylvilagus aquaticus. 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 swamp rabbit a common word?

swamp rabbit 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.