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dog-fox

noun

Etymology

From Middle English dogge fox. By surface analysis, dog + fox.

  1. inherited from dogge fox

Definitions

  1. A male fox.

    • Till sung his midnight hymn the owl, / Answer'd the dog-fox with his howl, / Then waked the King—at his request, / Lord Ronald stretch'd himself to rest.
    • Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dog fox / Gone to ground

  2. The arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus, and especially the blue fox subspecies.

  3. Any species of the genus Vulpes.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA