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# jackrabbit

«jackrabbit» in Mova's school dictionary: **a large hare of western North America with very long ears…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a jackrabbit, jackrabbits); verb (jackrabbit, jackrabbits, jackrabbited — informal, US)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A jackrabbit is a large hare of western North America with very long ears and strong back legs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jackrabbit/#m1)

2) (informal, US) To jackrabbit is to start or move suddenly and fast, like a car shooting off from traffic lights. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jackrabbit/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons about deserts, jackrabbits use their huge ears to lose heat and can run up to about 60 km per hour. Despite the name, a jackrabbit is a hare, not a rabbit: hares are born with fur and open eyes. Phrases: «jackrabbit start», «black-tailed jackrabbit».

### examples

- A jackrabbit leapt out from behind the cactus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jackrabbit/#x1)
- Jackrabbits have long ears that help them stay cool. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jackrabbit/#x2)
- The black-tailed jackrabbit lives in the deserts of the USA and Mexico. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jackrabbit/#x3)
- A jackrabbit can run faster than most dogs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jackrabbit/#x4)
- The car made a jackrabbit start when the lights turned green. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jackrabbit/#x5)
- Coyotes and eagles hunt jackrabbits. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jackrabbit/#x6)

### note

One word. A jackrabbit is a hare, not a true rabbit. Plural «jackrabbits». Mostly American; in the UK you would say «hare».

### In the corpora

- [Jackrabbits are hares; hares are bigger than rabbits, with longer ears and legs, and live above ground in nests in grass.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/123-bugs-bunny-and-daffy-duck-real-rabbits-hares-and-ducks/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «jackrabbit» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/J/jackrabbit/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.