desert hare

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desert hare - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Desert \Des"ert\, a. [Cf. L. desertus, p. p. of deserere, and F.
     d['e]sert. See 2d Desert.]
     Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or
     cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate;
     solitary; as, they landed on a desert island.
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           He . . . went aside privately into a desert place.
                                                    --Luke ix. 10.
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           Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
           And waste its sweetness on the desert air. --Gray.
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     Desert flora (Bot.), the assemblage of plants growing
        naturally in a desert, or in a dry and apparently
        unproductive place.
  
     Desert hare (Zool.), a small hare (Lepus sylvaticus, var.
        Arizon[ae]) inhabiting the deserts of the Western United
        States.
  
     Desert mouse (Zool.), an American mouse (Hesperomys  eremicus
        ), living in the Western deserts.
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