fennec vixen

noun

A female fennec fox.

Meanings

nounfennec vixen (plural fennec vixens)

plural fennec vixens

  1. rareA female fennec fox.

    As they found their way to their bedrolls, a fennec vixen cried out somewhere nearby. Her mate answered a few seconds later, a joyous sound that echoed across the desert.

    2019, August Li, chapter 20, in Nomad's Dream, Dreamspinner Press, →ISBN, unnumbered page
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    Well, furries are anthropomorphic, so they don't necessarily have to have digitigrade legs (and not all species are digitigrade in real life either), but I think that digitigrade legs look fine on some species (see attached fennec vixen).

    1998 December 11, Herman Miller, “To Digigrade or not to digigrade?”, in fur.artwork.erotica (Usenet)

    […] Or quiet and still, merging with the silver shadows, waiting for the fennec vixen and her cubs. Not everyone could get close to a fennec. They were shy creatures, you had to be patient […]

    2020, Natasha Farrant, “THE DESERT PRINCESS”, in Eight Princesses and a Magic Mirror, WW Norton, →ISBN, unnumbered page
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