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UK
/kˈɒtəntˌeɪl/
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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
- Deer, cottontail rabbits, voles (field mice) and pocket gophers are some of the most common species that damage trees in Nebraska.
- A rabbit has been calculated to possess one-hundred-million olfactory receptors-small wonder its little schnozz is always twitching, it is trapped in an undulating blizzard of aromatic stimuli-and Marcel "Bunny" LeFever was reputed, with some exaggeration, to be the human equivalent of Peter Cottontail. La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
- Before I had a chance to observe further to see if the cottontail would happily eat more, the resident Cooper's hawk flew by and sent everyone for cover.
- Damage to rosette leaves appeared to be by cottontail rabbits, based on droppings associated with the damaged plants.
- The ermine's diet consists primarily of mice, but they also prey upon cottontails, small hares, porcupines, squirrels, pikas, and rats.
- Just a dog that can let me know when I'm about to bust into a patch of quail, or when a cottontail is lurking nearby. Who Wrote The Dogs Out?
- The ermine's diet consists primarily of mice, but they also prey upon cottontails, small hares, porcupines, squirrels, pikas, and rats.
- A moment later and I spot a cottontail, no more than thirty yards out. New Weekly Contest: Best Hunting Story Wins a Leatherman
- April 15th, 2006 at 10:37 pm angie you’re welcome – dana @111 will that be a flopsy or a mopsy cottontail for bunnaise. Firedoglake » And You Call Us Unreliable?
- Canyons and creeks ran to the river down gullies 200 feet deep and were full of quail, and cottontails and coyotes and jack rabbits.