A rabbit, especially the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus (formerly known as Lepus cuniculus (species)).
Rabbit fur.
Locally for other rabbit-like or hyrax-like animals, such as the Cape hyrax (das, dassie) or the pika (Ochotona princeps (species), formerly Lagomys princeps (species)).
An edible West Indian fish, a grouper given in different sources as: Epinephelus apua (species), the hind of Bermuda; nigger-fish, Epinephelus punctatus (species); Cephalopholis fulva (species).
Several species of tropical west Atlantic groupers of family Epinephelidae (family), such as the mutton hamlet, graysby, Cuban coney, and rooster hind.
From Middle English coni, from conies, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conis, the plural of conil, from Vulgar Latin *cuniclus ("rabbit"), from Latin cuniculus ("rabbit"), from Ancient Greek κύνικλος. The original pronunciation was (for the spelling compare honey and money), but the similarity to cunt (and particularly homophony with cunny) led through taboo avoidance both to the word's displacement in the main by rabbit and bunny and to the spelling pronunciation becoming standard. Compare Galician coello, Portuguese coelho, Italian coniglio, and Spanish conejo.
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