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Lepus

Lepus proper noun: a winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a rabbit. It lies south of the constellation Orion.

lepus: a winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a rabbit. It lies south of the...
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Proper noun

Lepus

  1. A winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a rabbit. It lies south of the constellation Orion.

Lepus meaning in Tamil, Malay and Persian

Lepus in Tamil

முயல்

Lepus in Malay

winter constellation of the northern sky
Arnab

Lepus in Persian

winter constellation of the northern sky
خرگوش xarguš

Origin of Lepus

Borrowed from Latin lepus (“rabbit, hare”).

Words formed from Lepus

  • Leporis

Questions about Lepus

What does Lepus mean?
Lepus means a winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a rabbit. It lies south of the constellation Orion.
What is Lepus in Tamil?
Lepus in Tamil is முயல். See Lepus meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is Lepus?
Lepus is a proper noun.

Words near Lepus in the dictionary

  1. lepturine
  2. lepturines
  3. leptynite
  4. leptynites
  5. leptynitic
  6. Lepus
  7. Lequio
  8. Lequire
  9. Lequires
  10. Lequisha
  11. Ler

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Lepus (page history and authors); lepus (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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