sylvilagus palustris

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   a wood rabbit of marshy coastal areas from North Carolina to Florida

   Synonymsmarsh hareswamp rabbit

   Broaderwood rabbit

Questions about sylvilagus palustris

What does sylvilagus palustris mean?

sylvilagus palustris means "a wood rabbit of marshy coastal areas from North Carolina to Florida".

What is another word for sylvilagus palustris?

Close synonyms include marsh hare, swamp 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 sylvilagus palustris a common word?

sylvilagus palustris 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.