Leporiform

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Synonym of rabbitlike.

    "I conclude that the concept of a rabbit bears a naturalistically specifiable relation R to rabbits that it does not bear to such intervening entities as leporiform packets of light, retinal images, and thalamic projections of such images."

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"I conclude that the concept of a rabbit bears a naturalistically specifiable relation R to rabbits that it does not bear to such intervening entities as leporiform packets of light, retinal images, and thalamic projections of such images."

Etymology

From Latin lepus (“hare”) + -iform.

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