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Lepus sylvaticus
(gcide) | Cottontail \Cot"ton*tail`\ (k[o^]t"t'n*t[=a]l`), n. (Zool.)
The American wood rabbit (Lepus sylvaticus); -- also called
Molly cottontail.
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Lepus sylvaticus
(gcide) | Desert \Des"ert\, a. [Cf. L. desertus, p. p. of deserere, and F.
d['e]sert. See 2d Desert.]
Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or
cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate;
solitary; as, they landed on a desert island.
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He . . . went aside privately into a desert place.
--Luke ix. 10.
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Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air. --Gray.
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Desert flora (Bot.), the assemblage of plants growing
naturally in a desert, or in a dry and apparently
unproductive place.
Desert hare (Zool.), a small hare (Lepus sylvaticus, var.
Arizon[ae]) inhabiting the deserts of the Western United
States.
Desert mouse (Zool.), an American mouse ({Hesperomys
eremicus}), living in the Western deserts.
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