plain(s) hare

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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any of several large North American hares found in the West, as Lepus americanus and, especially, L. townsendii.

Quotations

1963

[Cottontails are] quite different from the long-legged plains hares and the varying hares, which we miscall snowshoe rabbits.