Usually means: Small rabbit with fluffy tail.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word cottontail:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. cottontail: Merriam-Webster
  2. cottontail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cottontail: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cottontail: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cottontail: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cottontail, cottontail: Wordnik
  7. cottontail: Wiktionary
  8. cottontail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cottontail: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. cottontail: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Cottontail, cottontail: Dictionary.com
  12. Cottontail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Cottontail: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. cottontail: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. cottontail: Rhymezone
  16. Cottontail: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. cottontail: FreeDictionary.org
  18. cottontail: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. cottontail: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. cottontail: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cottontail: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cottontail: Urban Dictionary

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▸ noun:  A rabbit of any of various species in genus Sylvilagus.
▸ noun:  (nudism) A person with a tanned body and untanned buttocks, resembling a cottontail rabbit's dark fur and light tail.

Similar:
Cottontail rabbit, wood rabbit, swamp rabbit, cony, jackrabbit, bunny, silver fox, buck rabbit, dwarf rabbit, squirrel, more...

Opposite:
jackrabbit, hare, pika

Types:
eastern cottontail, Desert cottontail, more...

Phrases:
Cottontail rabbit, cottontail rabbits, Eastern cottontail, desert cottontail, molly cottontail, more...

Adjectives:
eastern, little, young, common, small, wild, desert, appalachian, helpless, poor, female

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Similar:
Cottontail rabbit, wood rabbit, swamp rabbit, cony, jackrabbit, bunny, silver fox, buck rabbit, dwarf rabbit, squirrel, more...

Opposite:
jackrabbit, hare, pika

Types:
eastern cottontail, Desert cottontail, more...

Phrases:
Cottontail rabbit, cottontail rabbits, Eastern cottontail, desert cottontail, molly cottontail, Mountain cottontail, Here Comes Peter Cottontail, New England cottontail, Peter Cottontail, more...

Adjectives:
eastern, little, young, common, small, wild, desert, appalachian, helpless, poor, female



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