The domestic rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus, is a langomorph, not a rodent. They are descended from the wild rabbits of western Europe and northwestern Africa. Wild rabbits are gregarious, burrowing, herbivorous, nocturnal or crepuscular animals. The young are born hairless and blind in hair-lined nests.
Dictionary entry overview: What does lagomorph mean?
• LAGOMORPH (noun) The noun LAGOMORPH has 1 sense:
1. relative large gnawing animals; distinguished from rodents by having two pairs of upper incisors specialized for gnawing.
2. the order Langamorpha containing rabbits, hares and pikas.
Familiarity information: LAGOMORPH used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• LAGOMORPH (noun)
Meaning:
Relative large gnawing animals; distinguished from rodents by having two pairs of upper incisors specialized for gnawing
Classified under: Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms: gnawing mammal; lagomorph
Hypernyms ("lagomorph" is a kind of...): eutherian; eutherian mammal; placental; placental mammal (mammals having a placenta; all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lagomorph"): Duplicidentata (in former classifications considered a suborder of Rodentia coextensive with the order Lagomorpha: gnawing animals)
leporid; leporid mammal (rabbits and hares)
coney; cony; mouse hare; pika; rock rabbit (small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America)
Holonyms ("lagomorph" is a member of...):
Lagomorpha; order Lagomorpha (rabbits; hares; pikas; formerly considered the suborder Duplicidentata of the order Rodentia)
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