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Coney

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. etc. See cony, etc.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A rabbit. See cony.
  • noun. A fish. See Cony.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A rabbit, especially the European rabbit (Lepus cuniculus).
  • noun. The cony (fish).
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food
  • noun. black-spotted usually dusky-colored fish with reddish fins
  • noun. any of several small ungulate mammals of Africa and Asia with rodent-like incisors and feet with hooflike toes
  • noun. small short-eared burrowing mammal of rocky uplands of Asia and western North America
  • Word Usage
    "Such is the hippopotamus, and such is the hyrax, the remarkable rock-haunting animal, which in the authorised translation of the Scriptures is called the "coney," and which in the Revised Version is allowed in the margin to retain its Hebrew name, "shaphan.""