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curtailed fox

curtailed fox noun: a San Joaquin kit fox (Vulpes macrotis mutica).

curtailed fox: a San Joaquin kit fox (Vulpes macrotis mutica)
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Noun

curtailed fox (plural curtailed foxes)

  1. (rare) A San Joaquin kit fox (Vulpes macrotis mutica).
    • Elliot (1905: 385) provided a common name for Vulpes mutica, the curtailed fox. Elliot was the first to match the specific epithet gender with the generic gender: V. mutica rather than V. muticus.2011, H. O. Clark, Jr., “The history of arid-land fox discoveries in North America”, in Archives of natural history, Edinburgh University Press, →DOI, page 310

Forms of curtailed fox

pluralcurtailed foxes

Origin of curtailed fox

Coined in 1904 by zoologist Daniel Giraud Elliot.

Questions about curtailed fox

What does curtailed fox mean?
Curtailed fox means a San Joaquin kit fox (Vulpes macrotis mutica).
What part of speech is curtailed fox?
Curtailed fox is a noun.
What is the plural of curtailed fox?
The plural of curtailed fox is curtailed foxes.

Words near curtailed fox in the dictionary

  1. curtail
  2. curtail dog
  3. curtail dogs
  4. curtailable
  5. curtailed
  6. curtailed fox
  7. curtailed foxes
  8. curtailer
  9. curtailers
  10. curtailest
  11. curtaileth

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