Meanings
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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.
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2
noun
a pika or a hyrax, especially in older names such as rock coney
Early naturalists sometimes called the rock hyrax a coney.
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3
noun
a small black-spotted grouper of the tropical western Atlantic
A coney hovered above the reef before darting into a crevice.
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Etymology
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.