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Definition of Polar hare
1. Noun. A large hare of northern North America; it is almost completely white in winter.
Group relationships: Genus Lepus, Lepus
Generic synonyms: Hare
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polar Hare
Literary usage of Polar hare
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Animals: A Popular Guide to the Mammals of North America North of by Witmer Stone, William Everett Cram (1902)
"American polar hare. Lepus arcticus Ross. Range and 2. Bangs' polar hare. ...
Takes the place of the American polar hare in Newfoundland. parts gray in ..."
2. American Animals: A Popular Guide to the Mammals of North America North of by Witmer Stone, William Everett Cram (1902)
"American polar hare. Lepus arcticus Ross. Range and 2. Bangs' polar hare. ...
Takes the place of the American polar hare in Newfoundland. parts gray in ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1896)
"The polar hare of North America was separated from that of Scandinavia by ...
Ross stated further: "Dr. Leach thinks it [the polar hare of Baffin Land] to ..."
4. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1884)
"Not only in the matter of food is the polar hare suited to its bleak, snowy hbme.
Human beings who live in the same latitude have found it necessary to make ..."