dog-fox

English

Noun

dog-fox (plural dog-foxes)

  1. A male fox.
    'Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dog fox, gone to ground' ---Pink Floyd, 'Grantchester Meadows' [from the album "Ummagumma" (1969)]
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Sir Walter Scott to this entry?)
  2. The arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus, and especially the blue fox subspecies.
  3. Any species of the genus Vulpes.
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