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单词 vulpinous
释义

vulpinous

English

Etymology

From vulpine + -ous, borrowed from Latin vulpīnus (foxy, fox-like), from vulpēs, earlier volpēs (fox).

Adjective

vulpinous (not comparable)

  1. of a reddish colour, rufous
    • 1909, Transactions Of The American Entomological Society Of Landan Vol 35, page 340:
      [] the bristles of the head, thorax and scutellum verging toward vulpinous []
  2. foxlike in nature or appearance
    • 2009, “Chin Chin & Muck Muck”, in What Will We Be, performed by Devendra Banhart:
      We're vulpinous vultures
    • 2017 October 27, Kevin Sweeney, “Chapter 5”, in The Martian Fairytales:
      Alongside, there was an odd-looking hat stand; it didn’t have any hats hanging on it, in fact, it had two masks, how odd she thought, the one looked Vulpinous, the other was distinctly birdlike.
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