cane-cutter

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noun

any of several species of large cottontails inhabiting swamps or marshes.

Also, cane cutter.

Also called swamp rabbit.

Origin:
1835–45, Americanism, for earlier sense; cane + cutter

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canecutter
noun
a wood rabbit of southeastern United States swamps and lowlands [syn: swamp rabbit]

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