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bush rabbit
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a species of hare, Lepus americanus, especially common in the North, so called because its fur is brown in summer and white in winter.
See: varying hare
Quotations
1920
In the Fraser Valley [of B.C.] the bush rabbits, or hares, suffer from the same complaint.
1963
The great majority [of coyotes] live on hares (the so-called jack and bush rabbits of the West), mice, gophers, and carrion of all kinds.