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One cold winter day, walking along an unpaved track, Dalton comes upon a newborn hare – a leveret – lying helpless on a grass strip.—
Heller McAlpin,
Christian Science Monitor,
3 Mar. 2025 On average only 25% of leverets reach adulthood, and few live past three or four years.—
Heller McAlpin,
The Christian Science Monitor,
3 Mar. 2025
Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Anglo-French, hare skin, from levere, levre hare, from Latin lepor-, lepus