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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("coney" is a kind of...):
leporid; leporid mammal (rabbits and hares)
Meronyms (parts of "coney"):
scut (a short erect tail)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coney"):
rabbit ears (the long ears of a rabbit)
lapin (castrated male rabbit)
bunny; bunny rabbit ((usually informal) especially a young rabbit)
European rabbit; Old World rabbit; Oryctolagus cuniculus (common greyish-brown burrowing animal native to southern Europe and northern Africa but introduced elsewhere; widely domesticated and developed in various colors and for various needs; young are born naked and helpless)
cottontail; cottontail rabbit; wood rabbit (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))
Belgian hare; leporide (red breed of domestic rabbits; hybrid between Old World rabbit and hare)
Angora; Angora rabbit (domestic breed of rabbit with long white silky hair)
Holonyms ("coney" is a member of...):
warren (a colony of rabbits)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America
Synonyms:
coney; cony; mouse hare; pika; rock rabbit
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("coney" is a kind of...):
gnawing mammal; lagomorph (relative large gnawing animals; distinguished from rodents by having two pairs of upper incisors specialized for gnawing)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coney"):
little chief hare; Ochotona princeps (North American pika)
collared pika; Ochotona collaris (similar to little chief hare and may be same species)
Holonyms ("coney" is a member of...):
family Ochotonidae; Ochotonidae (pikas and extinct forms)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes
Synonyms:
coney; cony; das; dassie; hyrax
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("coney" is a kind of...):
eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "coney"):
Procavia capensis; rock hyrax; rock rabbit (hyrax that lives in rocky areas)
Holonyms ("coney" is a member of...):
family Procaviidae; Procaviidae (includes all recent members of the order Hyracoidea)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Black-spotted usually dusky-colored fish with reddish fins
Synonyms:
coney; Epinephelus fulvus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("coney" is a kind of...):
grouper (usually solitary bottom sea basses of warm seas)
Holonyms ("coney" is a member of...):
Epinephelus; genus Epinephelus (genus of groupers or sea bass)
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