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English
Etymology
From vulpine + -ous, borrowed from Latin vulpīnus (“foxy, fox-like”), from vulpēs, earlier volpēs (“fox”).
Adjective
vulpinous (not comparable)
- of a reddish colour, rufous
1909, Transactions Of The American Entomological Society Of Landan Vol 35, page 340:[…] the bristles of the head, thorax and scutellum verging toward vulpinous […]
- foxlike in nature or appearance
2009, “Chin Chin & Muck Muck”, in What Will We Be, performed by Devendra Banhart:We're vulpinous vultures
2017 October 27, Kevin Sweeney, “Chapter 5”, in The Martian Fairytales:Alongside, there was an odd-looking hat stand; it didn’t have any hats hanging on it, in fact, it had two masks, how odd she thought, the one looked Vulpinous, the other was distinctly birdlike.