noun
Meaning 1
A rabbit of any of various species in genus Sylvilagus.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: cottontail rabbit
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
cottontail
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
-
General-American: /ˈkɑt.n̩teɪl/
-
Received-Pronunciation: /ˈkɒt.n̩teɪl/
-
US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
noun
Meaning 2
A person with a tanned body and untanned buttocks, resembling a cottontail rabbit's dark fur and light tail.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: nudism
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
common small rabbit of North America having greyish or brownish fur and a tail with a white underside; a host for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: wood rabbit, cottontail rabbit
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: rabbit, coney, cony
Narrower terms: eastern cottontail, Sylvilagus floridanus, swamp rabbit, canecutter, swamp hare, Sylvilagus aquaticus, marsh hare, Sylvilagus palustris
History
Etymology
From cotton + tail.
Across languages
Translations
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Basque: ekialdeko kotoi-isats — type of rabbit
- Breton: konikl Florida — type of rabbit
- Catalan: conill de Florida — type of rabbit
- Chinese Mandarin: 棉尾兔 (miánwěitù) — type of rabbit
- Chinese Mandarin: 林兔 (líntù) — type of rabbit
- Dutch: Floridakonijn — type of rabbit
- Esperanto: Florida kuniklo — type of rabbit
- Finnish: amerikankaniini — type of rabbit
- French: lapin à queue blanche — type of rabbit
- French: lapin de Floride — type of rabbit
- German: Florida-Waldkaninchen — type of rabbit
- Italian: silvilago orientale — type of rabbit
- Nahuatl: cuātōchtli — type of rabbit
- Navajo: gałbáhí — type of rabbit
- O'odham: to꞉bĭ — type of rabbit
- Panamint: tapun — type of rabbit
- Panamint: taputtsi — type of rabbit
- Polish: królak — type of rabbit
- Portuguese: coelho-da-Flórida — type of rabbit
- Russian: флори́дский кро́лик (florídskij królik) — type of rabbit
- Spanish: conejo de Florida — type of rabbit
- Ukrainian: флоридски за́ек (florydsky záek) — type of rabbit