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单词 marsh rabbit
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marsh rabbit
marsh rabbit n. (a) U.S. a dark brown rabbit, Sylvilagus palustris, found in coastal lowlands of the south-eastern United States (cf. swamp rabbit n. at swamp n. Compounds 4); (b) U.S. regional a muskrat.
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1857 S. F. Baird Mammals (U.S. War Dept.: Rep. Explor. Route to Pacific VIII) p. xlv Lepus palustris, Bach—Marsh Rabbit.—Lowlands of southern coast, from South Carolina to Florida.
1869 Amer. Naturalist 3 343 It is clear that a Marsh Rabbit has passed this way.
1917 U.S. Dept. Agric. Farmers' Bull. No. 869. 10 In the retail markets of Philadelphia, Baltimore, Wilmington, and other cities, they are sold as ‘marsh rabbits’, but no attempt is made to conceal the fact that they are muskrats.
1931 Good Housek. (U.S. ed.) Dec. 206/2 I saw in front of me a marsh rabbit, which can swim like a muskrat.
1960 H. S. Zim Guide to Everglades 23 Marsh rabbit is a small all-brown rabbit seen along the Tamiami Trail and in the Everglades.
1990 J. Shields Chesapeake Bay Cookbk. (1991) ii. 163/1 Most people on the Eastern Shore trap muskrat, or what they call ‘marsh rabbit’.
1997 Molecular Phylogenetics & Evol. 7 294 The marsh rabbit, S. palustris, and the swamp rabbit, S. aquaticus, are sister taxa.
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