Combine a soft plant harvested in warm fields with the trailing body part a bunny wiggles when it jumps, and you get the name of a famous Easter hare. What am I?
Cottontail
'Cotton' is a fluffy plant, and a 'tail' is the rear appendage of an animal; combined, they form 'Cottontail' (as in Peter Cottontail).
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