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UK
/kˈɒtəntˌeɪl/
]
NOUN
- common small rabbit of North America having greyish or brownish fur and a tail with a white underside; a host for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks)
How To Use cottontail In A Sentence
- Males pursue larger animals, such as eastern cottontail rabbits.
- It nosed along the old logging road, stopping to drink in the scent of the squirrels and cottontails and swamp rabbits that had passed earlier in the morning.
- They mostly eat rodents, eastern cottontail rabbits, insects, and fruit.
- A buttery shaft of sun slants through a stand of leafy chestnut trees, dappling a family of cottontails which has crept onto the 12th fairway to lick dewdrops from the English rye.
- But yesterday one of them - "Suddenly, from a clump of cactus near the building, a cottontail rabbit sprinted away across the desert floor. PREY
- So you’re saying that Libby’s defense is flopsy punaise and that the little mopsy is going to spend a few years sitting on his cottontail in Mr. McGregor’s big enclosure for bad bunnies? Firedoglake » Part I of Well, That Has to…
- Unlike cottontails and jackrabbits, pygmy rabbits dig burrows, the only American rabbit that does so.
- Deer, cottontail rabbits, voles (field mice) and pocket gophers are some of the most common species that damage trees in Nebraska.
- Now, the hawk looked to me to be a male and a full grown cottontail is a little much for a Cooper's to take on, but it's not out of the realm of possibility.
- They mostly eat rodents, eastern cottontail rabbits, insects, and fruit.