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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

leporiform en · ADJ

Etymology

From Latin lepor- (“hare”) + -iform.

Meanings

  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:

Forms

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most leporiform Degree=Sup lexicographic
more leporiform Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Synonyms

rabbitlike