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varying hare†
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.
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1784
The hind legs are longer in proportion than those of the common Hare or varying Hare.
1898
The graders assert that the marten is subject to periodic murrains, as is the varying hare, but when these periods occurred and whether at seven year intervals they did not know.
1963
[Cottontails are] quite different from the long-legged plains hares and the varying hares, which we miscall snowshoe rabbits.