dog-fox

See also: dogfox

English

Alternative forms

• dogfox

Etymology

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

Noun

dog-fox (plural dog-foxes)

1. A male fox.

   Synonym: tod

   'Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dog fox, gone to ground' — Pink Floyd, 'Grantchester Meadows' [from the album "Ummagumma" (1969)]

   'Answer'd the dog fox with his howl' — Sir Walter Scott, 'The Lord of the Isles, Canto Third, 26' The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott (1857) p274

2. The arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus, and especially the blue fox subspecies.
3. Any species of the genus Vulpes.

Hypernyms

• fox

Coordinate terms

• (male fox): vixen (“female fox”)