dog-fox

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.