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curtailed foxes

curtailed foxes is the plural of curtailed fox.

Meaning of curtailed fox

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

Questions about curtailed foxes

What is curtailed foxes the plural of?
Curtailed foxes is the plural of curtailed fox.

Words near curtailed foxes in the dictionary

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

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