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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English dogge fox. By surface analysis, dog + fox.
Noun
dog-fox (plural dog-foxes)
- A male fox.
- Synonym: tod
- 'Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dog fox, gone to ground' — Pink Floyd, 'Grantchester Meadows'
- 'Answer'd the dog fox with his howl' — Sir Walter Scott, 'The Lord of the Isles, Canto Third, 26'
- The arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus, and especially the blue fox subspecies.
- Any species of the genus Vulpes.
Hypernyms
Coordinate terms
- (male fox): vixen (“female fox”)