leporiform

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Latin lepus (hare) +‎ -iform

Adjective[edit]

leporiform (comparative more leporiform, superlative most leporiform)

  1. Synonym of rabbitlike.
    • 2014, Christopher S. Hill, Meaning, Mind, and Knowledge, page 80:
      I conclude that the concept of a rabbit bears a naturalistically specifiable relation R to rabbits that it does not bear to such intervening entities as leporiform packets of light, retinal images, and thalamic projections of such images.