[
US
/ˈkoʊni/
]
[ UK /kənˈaɪ/ ]
[ UK /kənˈaɪ/ ]
NOUN
- any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food
- black-spotted usually dusky-colored fish with reddish fins
- small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America
- any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes
How To Use coney In A Sentence
- The term cony (coney) as used in the Bible refers to the hyrax, not to the pika (‘true’ cony).
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- A statute of 1337 in England restricted the wearing of furs to those with an income of £100 p.a., while a later scale confined ermine to the richest and restricted the poor to the furs of humble creatures, such as the cat, coney, or fox.
- At Castle Place the Coney Island sign is pointing in the wrong direction which must be very confusing for visitors.
- They had cackled and cheered when Peter had finally killed the little coney with a sharp blow to the spine that had snapped it in two with the sound of a popgun.
- Malcolm will also call at a mill in Coney Lane where a ghost still haunts the building.
- Coney, a tenants rights activist, worked with the city to create a tenant-owned nonprofit corporation.
- Also called the ‘rock rabbit,’ ‘coney,’ and ‘little chief hare,’ the pika's name is derived from the Siberian word for this animal, puka.
- 25 years ago: A new peal of bells arrived at St Martin's Church, Coney Street, to replace bells damaged when the church was bombed in 1941.
- There's only one good way to cook a brace of coneys.
