Crossword-Solution: LEPORIDE
We have 4 clues for the answer “LEPORIDE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Hybrid between rabbit and hare. | 1 answer |
| rodent Belgian | 1 answer |
| BELGIAN hare | 2 answers |
| Belgian rodent | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with LEPORIDE (4)
There were small long-eared hares, suggesting the leporide; sign of gazelles appeared; and the Bedawin spoke of wolves and hyenas, foxes and jackals.
This hybrid has received the name of leporide (from the Latin _leporinus_, pertaining to a hare), and it is different from former crosses, in being five parts hare, and three parts rabbit.
Roux has bred this hybrid during the last eighteen years, and has not observed the slightest appearance of decay of race manifest itself up to the present, so that, for all practical purposes, the leporide may be regarded as an addition to the distinct species of animals.
The permanent breed should then be obtained by crossing the quadroon doe leporide, if I may use the term, with the half-bred buck.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1942).