a. and sb. [f. next + -AN.] Of or pertaining to the State of Texas. In some specific names of animals, plants, etc.: e.g.
Texan armadillo, the PEBA; Texas bluebonnet, Lupinus Texensis; Texan fever = Texas fever; Texan hare, the American JACK-RABBIT; Texan pride, Phlox Drummondii, a bright-flowered annual, native in Texas; Texan shrew-mole, Scalops latimanus.
1860. Bartlett, Dict. Amer., 218. Jackass Rabbit … known also as Mule Rabbit, Texan Hare, and Black-tailed Hare.
1888. Cassell’s Encycl. Dict., Texan shrew-mole.
