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Definition of rabbit-proof in English: rabbit-proofadjective Australian, NZ Designed to contain the spread of wild rabbits and other agricultural pests. a rabbit-proof gate allows for the passage of traffic Example sentencesExamples - By 1888 they had penetrated the rabbit-proof fence erected by the New South Wales government.
- The rabbit-proof fence was a strip of barbed-wire netting that cut across half of the continent and was designed to protect farmer's crops by keeping the rabbits away.
- The giant rabbit-proof fence stretches from coast to coast.
- University botanists were consulted but advised that a sand area enclosed by rabbit-proof fencing would remain just that: bare sand.
- An anonymous "guerrilla gardener" took over the plot, added a rabbit-proof mesh and planted potatoes.
- I will erect a rabbit-proof fence like the famous one Down Under, except that my fence would be about 1,100 miles shorter.
- The film tells of the children's escape and how they follow the rabbit-proof fence across a blistering desert.
- The youngest helps weed the pots in the rabbit-proof compound.
- It was originally built to be rabbit-proof as well, but that ended up requiring a whole second fence.
- We did most of the preparation before I retired, including putting up a smart, rabbit-proof fence to protect the new plants while they establish.
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