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Cony vs Cory - What's the difference?

cony | cory |

As nouns the difference between cony and cory

is that cony is a rabbit, especially the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus (formerly known as species: Lepus cuniculus) while cory is any fish belonging to the genus genus: Corydoras, a group of South American freshwater catfish.

As a proper noun Cory is

{{surname|from=Irish}.

cony

English

Alternative forms

* (rabbit) coney, cunny, connie

Noun

(conies)
  • A rabbit, especially the European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus (formerly known as ).
  • (UK, dialect) Rabbit fur.
  • Used in the Old Testament as a translation of Hebrew š?p?n'' (''shaapaan'', ''shaphan''), thought to be the rock hyrax ''Hyrax syriacus .
  • Locally for other rabbit-like or hyrax-like animals, such as the Cape hyrax (das, dassie) or the pika ((taxlink), formerly Lagomys princeps ).
  • (obsolete) A simpleton; one who may be taken in by a cony-catcher.
  • * 1599 , Diet's Dry Dinner :
    • It is a most simple animal; whence are derived our usual phrases of cony'' and ''cony catcher .
  • An edible West Indian fish, a grouper given in different sources as: , the hind of Bermuda; (taxlink); (taxlink).
  • Several species of tropical west Atlantic groupers of family Epinephelidae are also called coney , such as the mutton hamlet, graysby, Cuban coney and rooster hind.
  • (UK, dialect) The burbot, also called coney-fish.

    • Synonyms

    * (rabbit) bunny, hare

    Anagrams

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    References

    * * * The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. (catlangcode) ----

    cory

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Corey * Cori, Kori, Korey, Kory

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • transferred from the surname.
  • * 2005 Robert L. Fried, The Game of School , Jossey-bass, ISBN 0787973475, page 42:
    • On another poster are the names of the new class — unusual names (at least to me) like Wen Qi, Elijah, Yoav, Noni, Koray, Cai Ying and Julissa, along with more common names like Cory , Betty, Tammy, Jordan, Jeffrey, and Andrew.
  • (less common than the male name) transferred from the surname, also a pet form of Cora, Corinne and similar sounding names.
  • * 1991 Clark D. Neher, Southeast Asia in the New International Era , Westview Press, ISBN 0813311799, page 58:
    • Corazon "Cory " Aquino, the widow of the martyred Senator Benigno Aquino Jr., emerged as the person around whom all the oppositionists could coalesce.
  • * 1998 Robyn Amos, Into the Night , ISBN 0786005599, page 61:
    • I went to high school with a girl named Corrine, though, and everyone called her Cory —

    References

    Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges : A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford University Press 1988. English surnames from given names