coney

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   archaic or historical: a rabbit, especially the European rabbit, or its fur

   The hat was trimmed with coney fur dyed to resemble sable.

2. 2
   noun

   a pika or a hyrax, especially in older names such as rock coney

   Early naturalists sometimes called the rock hyrax a coney.

3. 3
   noun

   a small black-spotted grouper of the tropical western Atlantic

   A coney hovered above the reef before darting into a crevice.

From Middle English conies, reanalyzed from the plural of Anglo-French conil, 'rabbit,' from Latin cuniculus. The word later entered several animal names by resemblance or older translation traditions; cony is a spelling variant.

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