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dog-foxes

dog-foxes is the plural of dog-fox.

Meaning of dog-fox

Noun

dog-fox (plural dog-foxes)

  1. A male fox.
    • Till sung his midnight hymn the owl, / Answer'd the dog-fox with his howl, / Then waked the King—at his request, / Lord Ronald stretch'd himself to rest.1815, Walter Scott, “Canto Third”, in The Lord of the Isles, a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co....
    Synonyms:
    tod
  2. The arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus, and especially the blue fox subspecies.
  3. Any species of the genus Vulpes.

Questions about dog-foxes

What is dog-foxes the plural of?
Dog-foxes is the plural of dog-fox.

Words near dog-foxes in the dictionary

  1. dog-flea model
  2. dog-flea models
  3. dog-food
  4. dog-foods
  5. dog-fox
  6. dog-foxes
  7. dog-friendlier
  8. dog-friendliest
  9. dog-friendly
  10. dog-hearted
  11. dog-in-the-mangerism

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