Animal
Coney ( /ˈkoʊni/, historically /ˈkʌni/) is an English word for a rabbit or rabbit hair, (deriving from the Latin cuniculus, meaning "rabbit"), as well as several derived terms:
- Cuban Coney, an extinct species of rodent in the Capromyidae family. It was endemic to Cuba.
- Coney, a translation of the Hebrew Bible word שָּׁפָן (shaphan), in modern English "rock hyrax" (a rodent-like member of the order Hyracoidea)
- Coney, the common name for Cephalopholis fulva, a grouper fish
- Coney-catching, a term for confidence trick in Elizabethan English
- Coney, a representation of a rabbit in heraldry; see Charge (heraldry) and Three hares
- Coney or cony, an alternate name for pika, a rabbit-like alpine animal
- Coney (kuyan) is rabbit in Turkic languages
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