[ad. F. léporide, f. L. lepor-, lepus hare: see -IDE.] An alleged ‘cross’ between a hare and a rabbit.
1880. Libr. Univ. Knowl., VIII. 817. Leporide, the name given by the French to a remarkably prolific hybrid between the common European hare and the rabbit.
1886. Encycl. Brit., XX. 193/1. Some few years since many of these animals were sold as leporides or hybrids, produced by the union of the hare and rabbit; but the most careful experimenters have failed to produce any such hybrid.
