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.