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”)