Lepus

See also: lepus

Translingual

Lepus capensis

Etymology

Latin lepus (“hare”)

Proper noun

Lepus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Leporidae – hares and jackrabbits.

Synonyms

• (genus): Subsumed into Lepus: Allolagus, Boreolagus, Chionobates, Eulepus, Lagos

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Deuterostomia – infrakingdom; Chordata – phylum; Vertebrata – subphylum; Gnathostomata – infraphylum; Tetrapoda – superclass; Mammalia – class; Theria – subclass; Placentalia/Eutheria – infraclass; Lagomorpha – order; Leporidae – family

Hyponyms

• (genus): Lepus (Eulagos), Lepus (Indolagus), Lepus (Lepus), Lepus (Macrotolagus), Lepus (Poecilolagus), Lepus (Proeulagus), Lepus (Sabanalagus), Lepus (Sinolagus), Lepus (Tarimolagus) - subgenera
  • Lepus timidus (mountain hare) - type species; Lepus californicus (black-tailed jackrabbit), Lepus capensis (Cape hare), Lepus europaeus (European hare) - selected species

References

• Hare on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Lepus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Lepus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

English

The constellation Lepus

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lepus (“rabbit, hare”).

Proper noun

Lepus

1. (astronomy) A winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a rabbit. It lies south of the constellation Orion.

Derived terms

• Leporis

Translations

winter constellation of the northern sky

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 天兔座 (zh) (Tiāntùzuò)

• Finnish: Jänis (fi)
• French: Lièvre (fr) m
• Galician: Lebre (gl)
• German: Hase (de) m
• Greek: Λαγωός (el) m (Lagoós)

  Ancient: Λαγώς m (Lagṓs)

• Irish: an Giorria m
• Japanese: 兎座 (ja) (うさぎざ, Usagiza)
• Kazakh: Қоян (Qoän)
• Latin: Lepus m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Haas m, Hoos m

• Malay: Arnab
• Persian: خرگوش (fa) (xarguš)
• Polish: Zając (pl) m
• Russian: Заяц (Zajac)
• Spanish: Lepus

Anagrams

• Lupes, spule, Plues, lupes, pules, Uleps, pusle, pulse

Spanish

Proper noun

Lepus ?

1. (astronomy) Lepus (winter constellation of the northern sky)