Designed to contain the spread of wild rabbits and other agricultural pests.
a rabbit-proof gate allows for the passage of traffic
Example sentencesExamples
By 1888 they had penetrated the rabbit-proof fence erected by the New South Wales government.
The rabbit-proof fence was a strip of barbed-wire netting that cut across half of the continent and was designed to protect farmer's crops by keeping the rabbits away.
The giant rabbit-proof fence stretches from coast to coast.
University botanists were consulted but advised that a sand area enclosed by rabbit-proof fencing would remain just that: bare sand.
An anonymous "guerrilla gardener" took over the plot, added a rabbit-proof mesh and planted potatoes.
I will erect a rabbit-proof fence like the famous one Down Under, except that my fence would be about 1,100 miles shorter.
The film tells of the children's escape and how they follow the rabbit-proof fence across a blistering desert.
The youngest helps weed the pots in the rabbit-proof compound.
It was originally built to be rabbit-proof as well, but that ended up requiring a whole second fence.
We did most of the preparation before I retired, including putting up a smart, rabbit-proof fence to protect the new plants while they establish.