snowshoe rabbit

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the varying hare, so called because of the heavy winter feathering on its feet; also, in some areas, the Arctic hare.

Quotations

1903

And leap by leap, like some pale frost wraith, the snowshoe rabbit flashed on ahead.

1964

Snowshoe rabbits (hares) bounded across the road in our truck headlights going in, and again in the bright blue, dewless morning. . . .