wood rabbit
- noun
- /wʊd ˈræbɪt/
- US
:
conejo de los bosques
- Researchers discovered that the wood rabbit often carries ticks associated with Lyme disease.
Examples
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The wood rabbit is commonly found in forests and woodland edges across North America.
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Many wood rabbits live in the underbrush.
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Many predators in the region rely on the wood rabbit as a primary food source.
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The wood rabbit is often found in forests.
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Researchers discovered that the wood rabbit often carries ticks associated with Lyme disease.
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Many predators in the region rely on the wood rabbit as a primary food source.
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The wood rabbit is commonly found in forests and woodland edges across North America.
Synonyms
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A small North American rabbit with grey or brown fur and a white underside to its tail
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'wood rabbit' is directly built from 'wood' (a wooded area) + 'rabbit' and therefore denotes a rabbit associated with woods; a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it refers to a rabbit species or individual that lives in wooded areas. This noun+noun composition is a common, compositional pattern cross-linguistically and follows straightforward semantic combination, making the meaning predictable from the parts.
Etymology
Wood rabbit comes from the simple image of a rabbit living in the wood. So it means 'a small wild rabbit found in woods', and these rabbits often 'carry ticks'.