wood rabbit

Questions about wood rabbit

What does wood rabbit mean?

wood 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 wood rabbit?

Close synonyms include cottontail, 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 wood rabbit a common word?

wood 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.