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单词 leveret
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Definition of leveret in English:

leveret

noun ˈlɛv(ə)rɪtˈlɛv(ə)rət
  • A young hare in its first year.

    (未满周岁的)小野兔

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Because the leverets (young rabbits) are active at birth, elaborate nests are usually not built.
    • They nest in shallow depressions in the tundra, and broods of two to eight leverets (four or five is typical) are born in late June and are fully grown by early September.
    • Young hares are called leverets in English until they are a year old.
    • The fear is that many young ground nesting birds, such as the curlew and grouse, and mammals like the mountain hare leverets, will have been killed and damage done to the whole biodiversity of the moor.
    • Gyrfalcons did not pluck most arctic hare leverets.
    • Orphaned leverets may be left to die a lingering death from starvation.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, diminutive of levre, from Latin lepus, lepor- 'hare'.

Rhymes

Everett

Definition of leveret in US English:

leveret

nounˈlɛv(ə)rətˈlev(ə)rət
  • A young hare in its first year.

    (未满周岁的)小野兔

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Because the leverets (young rabbits) are active at birth, elaborate nests are usually not built.
    • They nest in shallow depressions in the tundra, and broods of two to eight leverets (four or five is typical) are born in late June and are fully grown by early September.
    • The fear is that many young ground nesting birds, such as the curlew and grouse, and mammals like the mountain hare leverets, will have been killed and damage done to the whole biodiversity of the moor.
    • Gyrfalcons did not pluck most arctic hare leverets.
    • Young hares are called leverets in English until they are a year old.
    • Orphaned leverets may be left to die a lingering death from starvation.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French, diminutive of levre, from Latin lepus, lepor- ‘hare’.

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