vulpinous

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adjective

of a reddish colour, rufous

OriginLatin vulpīnus →
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Meanings

adjectivevulpinous (not comparable)
  1. not comparableof a reddish colour, rufous

    […]the bristles of the head, thorax and scutellum verging toward vulpinous[…]

    1909, Transactions Of The American Entomological Society Of Landan Vol 35, page 340
  2. not comparablefoxlike in nature or appearance

    We're vulpinous vultures

    2009, “Chin Chin & Muck Muck”, in What Will We Be, performed by Devendra Banhart
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    Alongside, there was an odd-looking hat stand; it didn’t have any hats hanging on it, in fact, it had two masks, how odd she thought, the one looked Vulpinous, the other was distinctly birdlike.

    2017 October 27, Kevin Sweeney, “Chapter 5”, in The Martian Fairytales

Origin

  1. Latinvulpīnus“foxy, fox-like”
  2. Englishvulpinous

From vulpine + -ous, borrowed from Latin vulpīnus (“foxy, fox-like”), from vulpēs, earlier volpēs (“fox”).

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Chicago

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