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Red fox   /rɛd fɑks/   Listen
Red fox

noun
1.
Weedy annual with spikes of silver-white flowers.  Synonym: Celosia argentea.
2.
New World fox; often considered the same species as the Old World fox.  Synonym: Vulpes fulva.
3.
The common Old World fox; having reddish-brown fur; commonly considered a single circumpolar species.  Synonym: Vulpes vulpes.






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"Red fox" Quotes from Famous Books



... K-a-a-h, k-a-a-h! and threw up her flag. There was a rush within the thicket; a sharp K-a-a-h! answered hers. Then the second fawn burst out of the cover where she had hidden him, and darted along the ridge after her, jumping like a big red fox from rock to rock, rising like a hawk over the windfalls, hitting her tracks wherever he could, and keeping his little nose hard down to his one needful lesson of ...
— Types of Children's Literature • Edited by Walter Barnes

... indeed like to see that," but he would make no more wagers. The huntsman called the fox and said, "My little fox, go and fetch me some roast meat, such as the King eats." The red fox knew the bye-ways better, and went by holes and corners without any dog seeing him, seated himself under the chair of the King's daughter, and scratched her foot. Then she looked down and recognized ...
— Household Tales by Brothers Grimm • Grimm Brothers

... to find Bruce's dam. A long and weary tramp they had over the mountains. They turned aside often to chase the gray squirrels that abounded in that country, and they wasted much time in a fruitless attempt to dig out a red fox, that had crossed their path and shot down a hole in the ground. They were so long reaching the dam that they thought they must have been misdirected. They were about to return, when Paul suddenly said, ...
— The Story of Paul Boyton - Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World • Paul Boyton

... talk of going away. War shall cease at his bidding. Let him and his pale-faced warriors fell trees, and build wigwams, and hunt. We have plenty furs—the black fox, the red fox, the beaver, the marten, the minks, the bear, and many other animals are plentiful. We will exchange them for the goods of the white man. We will bury the hatchet, and smoke the calumet of peace, and the sound of the war-whoop shall no more be ...
— The Big Otter • R.M. Ballantyne

... profusion. Mouldering logs were covered with moss. The water gurgled slowly into deep corners under the banks. Catbirds and blue jays fluttered screaming from the thickets. Cotton-tailed rabbits darted away, showing the white flag of fear. Once I thought I saw the fuscous gleam of a red fox stealing silently through the brush. It would have been no surprise to hear the bark of a raccoon, or see the eyes of a wildcat ...
— Fisherman's Luck • Henry van Dyke

... and brown beer. An old man plays the bagpipes In a golden and silver wood, Queens, their eyes blue like the ice, Are dancing in a crowd. The little fox he murmured, 'O what is the world's bane?' The sun was laughing sweetly, The moon plucked at my rein; But the little red fox murmured, 'O do not pluck at his rein, He is riding to the townland That is ...
— In The Seven Woods - Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age • William Butler (W.B.) Yeats



Words linked to "Red fox" :   Celosia argentea, Celosia, genus Vulpes, silver fox, fox, genus Celosia, black fox, herb, Vulpes, herbaceous plant



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