foxlike

  • 51lupine — Synonyms and related words: all devouring, all engulfing, bloodsucking, canine, doggy, extortionate, foxlike, foxy, grabby, grasping, parasitic, predacious, predatory, rapacious, raptorial, ravening, ravenous, sharkish, vulpine, vulturine,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 52vulpine — Synonyms and related words: Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, arch, artful, astute, cagey, canine, canny, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep laid, designing, diplomatic, doggy, feline, foxlike, foxy, guileful, ingenious,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 53wolfish — Synonyms and related words: Draconian, Tartarean, all devouring, all engulfing, animal, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, beastly, bestial, bloodsucking, bloodthirsty, bloody, bloody minded, brutal, brutalized, brute, brutish,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 54vulpine — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. foxlike; foxy, crafty …

    English dictionary for students

  • 55alopecia — [14] This word appears to derive from the resemblance observed by the Greeks between baldness in human beings and mange in foxes. The Greek for ‘fox’ was alōpēx, hence alōpekía, borrowed into Latin as alopēcia. Alōpēx is related to Latin vulpēs… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 56fox — O.E. fox, from W.Gmc. *fukhs (Cf. O.S. vohs, M.Du., Du. vos, O.H.G. fuhs, Ger. Fuchs, O.N. foa, Goth. fauho), from P.Gmc. base *fuh , corresponding to PIE *puk tail (Cf. Skt. puccha tail ). The bushy tail is also the source …

    Etymology dictionary

  • 57corsac — n. small foxlike mammal; Central Asian tiny yellowish or reddish brown fox …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 58corsacs — n. small foxlike mammal; Central Asian tiny yellowish or reddish brown fox …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 59corgi — (also Welsh corgi) noun (plural corgis) a dog of a short legged breed with a foxlike head. Origin 1920s: from Welsh, from cor dwarf + ci dog …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 60flying fox — noun a large fruit bat with a foxlike face, found in Madagascar, SE Asia, and northern Australia. [Pteropus and two other genera: numerous species.] …

    English new terms dictionary