hare
part of speech
noun (hare, hares)
meaning for a pupil
A hare is a wild animal like a large rabbit, with long ears and long strong back legs, that runs very fast. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science lessons hares differ from rabbits: they are bigger, have longer ears with black tips, live above ground in a shallow nest (a form), and their babies (leverets) are born with fur and open eyes. Mountain and snowshoe hares turn white in winter for camouflage. In stories «The Tortoise and the Hare» teaches that slow and steady wins the race. Phrases: as mad as a March hare, the tortoise and the hare.
examples
- The hare raced across the field. tree →
- A hare is bigger than a rabbit. tree →
- In the fable, the tortoise beat the hare. tree →
- Snowshoe hares turn white in winter. tree →
- Baby hares are called leverets. tree →
- Hares box each other in spring. tree →
- The hare's long ears twitched. tree →
note
Countable noun. «Hare» (animal) sounds the same as «hair» (on your head) — homophones. Hares are not rabbits: they do not dig burrows and their babies are not born bald. «Mad as a March hare» comes from hares jumping and boxing in spring.
In the corpora
- Jackrabbits are hares; hares are bigger than rabbits, with longer ears and legs, and live above ground in nests in grass.
- Baby hares are born furry with open eyes and can hop soon after birth, while baby rabbits are born bare and blind underground.
- Arctic hares can hop on their back legs like a kangaroo when they run fast, and they sometimes gather in groups of hundreds.
- Alice reaches the March Hare's house and finds a tea-table under a tree.
- The March Hare dips it in his tea and gloomily repeats that it was the best butter.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «hare» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.