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noun
- Several small mammals of the family Leporidae (rabbits and hares), with long ears, long hind legs and a short, fluffy tail. Confusingly, jackrabbit is a hare.
- The pioneers survived by eating the small game they could get; rabbits, squirrels and occasionally a raccoon.
- The fur of a rabbit typically used to imitate another animal's fur.
- A runner in a distance race whose goal is mainly to set the pace, either to tire a specific rival so that a teammate can win or to help another break a record; a pacesetter.
- (cricket) A very poor batsman; selected as a bowler or wicket-keeper.
verb (rabbits, rabbitting, rabbitted)
- (intransitive) To hunt rabbits.
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noun
- Any member of the genus Procyon.
- Nocturnal omnivore originally living in Northern America, typically with a mixture of gray, brown, and black fur, a mask-like marking around the eyes and a striped tail.
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noun
- In scientific usage, any of about 56 different species of small, omnivorous rodent, rodents belonging to the genus Rattus.
- (colloquial) A term indiscriminately applied to numerous members of several rodent families (e.g. voles and mice) having bodies longer than about 12 cm, or 5 inches.
- A person who is known for betrayal; a traitor.
- What a , leaving us stranded here!
- 1883, w:Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson, w:Treasure Island, Treasure Island
- : He"s more a man than any pair of rats of you in this here house...
- A promiscuous person - often a young female - who attends sporting and other entertainment events, primarily to seek sexual liaisons with athletes, entertainers and/or others traveling with them.
verb (rat, t, ed)
- (context, usually with "on" or "out") to betray someone and tell their secret to an authority or an enemy; to turn someone in.
- He ratted on his coworker.
- He is going to us out!
- (context, of a dog, etc.) To kill rats.
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noun (Plural: razorbacks)
- A term used in the southeastern US for a thin feral pig. The term is borderline slang but is used as the nickname for the University of Arkansas athletic teams.
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| red deer |
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noun - browsing mammal, animal with antlers, Cervus elaphus
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| red fox |
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noun
- a species of fox, Vulpes vulpes common to North America and Western Europe; small, with reddish fur, but larger than the arctic fox
- a weedy flowering plant, Celosia argentea, having silver-white flowers
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noun (reindeer)
- (zoology) An Arctic and Subarctic-dwelling deer, a number of subspecies exist. The North American subspecies are known as caribou.
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| rhesus |
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noun
- A macaque monkey native of southern and southeastern Asia; Macaca mulatta.
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| rhino |
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noun
- Short form and abbreviation of rhinoceros.
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| rhinoceros |
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noun
- Any of several large herbivorous pachyderms native to Africa and Asia of the family Rhinocerotidae, with thick, gray skin and one or two horns on their snouts.
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| right whale |
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noun
- The baleen whales belonging to the family Balaenidae, in the genera Eubalaena (three species) and Balaena (one species, the bowhead whale, also called the Greenland right whale).
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| ringtail |
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noun
- a small carnivorous mammal, Bassariscus astutus, somewhat like a raccoon, native to the southwestern United States
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| ROE |
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initialism
- (finance) Return on Equity: A measure of how well a company used reinvested earnings to generate additional earnings.
- (military) Rules of Engagement
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| roebuck |
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noun
- A male roe deer (from buck, a male deer)
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| roe deer |
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noun (roe deer)
- A small deer species of Europe, Asia Minor, and Caspian coastal regions (Capreolus capreolus).
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| rooter |
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noun - One who, or that which, roots; one that tears up by the roots.
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| rorqual |
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noun
- Any whale with longitudinal skin folds running from below the mouth to the navel, allowing the capacity of the mouth to expand greatly when feeding.
adjective
- Pertaining to rorquals.
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