Conrad Wilhelm, dt. Baumeister, Einbeck 2.10.1818, +Hannover 28.3.1902, Meister der Neugotik des 19. Jh. 1849/1894 Lehrer der Techn. Hochschule Hannover, vertrat eine Erneuerung von roman. und got. Stilelementen auf Grund des bodenständigen Backsteinbaus und prägte das Stadtbild von Hannover. Sein Werk umfaßt weit über 100 Kirchenbauten, am bedeutendsten die Christuskirche, Hannover (1859/1864). Wiederherstellung mittelalterlicher Bauten: in Hildesheim St. Godehard und St. Michael, ferner die Klosterkirche in Loccum, St. Nikolai in Lüneburg, Schloß Marienburg (von seinem Schüler Oppler vollendet).
1. A young waitress in a night club whose costume includes a rabbit-tail and ears; SYN. bunny girl.
2. (Usually informal) Especially a young rabbit; SYN. bunny rabbit.
ETYM AS. hara; akin to Dutch haas, German hase, Old High Germ. haso, Dan. and Swed. hare, Icel. hęri, Skr. çaça.
(Homonym: hair).
Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long hind legs; young born furred and with open eyes.
Mammal of the genus Lepus of the family Leporidae (which also includes rabbits) in the order Lagomorpha. Hares are larger than rabbits, with very long, black-tipped ears, long hind legs, and short, upturned tails.
Throughout the long breeding season June–Aug, there are chases and “boxing matches” among males and females; the expression “mad as a March hare” arises from this behavior.
Unlike rabbits, hares do not burrow. Their furred, open-eyed young (leverets) are cared for in a shallow depression rather than a specially prepared nest cavity. Jack rabbits and snowshoe rabbits are actually hares.
ETYM Old Eng. rabet, akin to OD. robbe, robbeken.
(Homonym: rabbet).
1. Any of various burrowing animals of the family Leporidae having long ears and short tails; some domesticated and raised for pets or food; SYN. coney, cony.
2. Flesh of any of various rabbits or hares (wild or domesticated) eaten as food; SYN. hare.
Any of several genera of hopping mammals of the order Lagomorpha, which together with hares constitute the family Leporidae. Rabbits differ from hares in bearing naked, helpless young and in occupying burrows.
The Old World rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus), originally from S Europe and N Africa, has now been introduced worldwide. It is bred for meat and for its fur, which is usually treated to resemble more expensive furs. It lives in interconnected burrows called “warrens”, unlike cottontails (genus Sylvilagus), of which 13 species are native to North and South America.
(Astronomie) Lepus, kleines Sternbild südl. des Orion.
(Fluß) Haase, rechter Nebenfluß der Ems, 130 km; mündet bei Meppen.