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leporiform

leporiform adjective: synonym of rabbitlike.

Adjective

leporiform (comparative more leporiform, superlative most leporiform)

  1. Synonym of rabbitlike.
    • I conclude that the concept of a rabbit bears a naturalistically specifiable relation R to rabbits that it does not bear to such intervening entities as leporiform packets of light, retinal images, and thalamic projections of such images.2014, Christopher S. Hill, Meaning, Mind, and Knowledge, page 80
    Synonyms:
    rabbitlike

Synonyms of leporiform

Forms of leporiform

comparativemore leporiform
superlativemost leporiform

Origin of leporiform

From Latin lepor- (“hare”) + -iform.

Questions about leporiform

What does leporiform mean?
Leporiform means synonym of rabbitlike.
What part of speech is leporiform?
Leporiform is an adjective.

Words near leporiform in the dictionary

  1. leporello
  2. leporellos
  3. Lepores
  4. leporid
  5. leporids
  6. leporiform
  7. leporine
  8. leporines
  9. leporiphobia
  10. leporipoxvirus
  11. leporipoxviruses

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