Question: what is elil in watership down?
Answer: Elil. Elil is a Lapine word for enemy. Animals who prey on rabbits are called elil, and those animals include dogs, cats, foxes, weasels, stoats, badgers, pikes, and birds of prey. ... In the original book it is explained that "u hrair" means 'thousand' (or 'a lot', as rabbits cannot count beyond 4).