leporiform

leporiform

English

Etymology

Latin lepus (“hare”) +‎ -iform

Adjective

leporiform (comparative more leporiform, superlative most leporiform)

1. rabbit-shaped
   • 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.

Related terms

• leporine