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The definition of a hare is an animal with long, powerful hind legs that is similar to a rabbit but is bigger and has longer ears and legs.

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A rabbit-like animal that competed in a race with a tortoise in a famous children's story is an example of a hare.
A fake animal used in greyhound races to get the dogs to run around the track is an example of a hare.

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noun pl. hares or hare

any of a large group of swift mammals (order Lagomorpha) of the same family (Leporidae) as the rabbits, with long ears, soft fur, a cleft upper lip, a short tail, and long, powerful hind legs: it differs from a rabbit in that it is larger, does not burrow, and has furry, active young

Origin: ME < OE hara, akin to Ger hase < IE *as-, gray (hence, lit., the gray animal, euphemism for a taboo name) > L canus, hoary

intransitive verb hared, haring

Brit., Informal to run fast or go hurriedly: with off, away, about, etc.

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noun

Any of various mammals of the family Leporidae, especially of the genus Lepus, similar to rabbits but having longer ears and legs and giving birth to active, furred young.

intransitive verb hared hared, har·ing, hares hares

To move hurriedly, as if hunting a swift quarry.

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Origin: Middle English

Origin: , from Old English hara; see kas- in Indo-European roots

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