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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: common small rabbit of North America having greyish or brownish fur and a tail with a white underside; a host for Ixodes pacificus and Ixodes scapularis (Lyme disease ticks) [syn: wood rabbit, cottontail, cottontail rabbit]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1835 any of several rather small North American rabbits (genus Sylvilagus) sandy to grayish brown in color with a white-tufted underside of the tail

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. any rabbit of the genus Sylvilagus, native to America, having a mainly white fluffy tail.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Cottontail Cot"ton*tail` (k[o^]t"t'n*t[=a]l`), n. (Zo["o]l.) The American wood rabbit (Lepus sylvaticus); -- also called Molly cottontail.