fox
Noun
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Alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail;
Most are predators that do not hunt in packs (synset 102120985)is a type of: canid, canine - any of various fissiped mammals with nonretractile claws and typically long muzzlessubtypes:- vixen - a female fox
- reynard - a conventional name for a fox used in tales following usage in the old epic `Reynard the Fox'
- red fox, vulpes vulpes - the common Old World fox; having reddish-brown fur; commonly considered a single circumpolar species
- red fox, vulpes fulva - New World fox; often considered the same species as the Old World fox
- kit fox, prairie fox, vulpes velox - small grey fox of the plains of western North America
- kit fox, vulpes macrotis - small grey fox of southwestern United States; may be a subspecies of Vulpes velox
- alopex lagopus, arctic fox, white fox - thickly-furred fox of Arctic regions; brownish in summer and white in winter
- gray fox, grey fox, urocyon cinereoargenteus - dark grey American fox; from Central America through southern United States
- A shifty deceptive person (synset 110042484)
- The grey or reddish-brown fur of a fox (synset 114789089)
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English statesman who supported American independence and the French Revolution (1749-1806) (synset 110996993)
is an instance of: national leader, solon, statesman - a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairssame as: charles james fox
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English religious leader who founded the Society of Friends (1624-1691) (synset 110996858)
is an instance of: religious person - a person who manifests devotion to a deitysame as: george fox
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A member of an Algonquian people formerly living west of Lake Michigan along the Fox River (synset 109675274)
is a type of: algonquian, algonquin - a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast
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The Algonquian language of the Fox (synset 106922624)
is a type of: algonquian, algonquian language, algonquin - family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains
Verb
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Deceive somebody (synset 202581808)
"We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week"subtypes: snooker - fool or dupe
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Be confusing or perplexing to;
Cause to be unable to think clearly (synset 200623406)"These questions confuse even the experts"; "This question completely threw me"; "This question befuddled even the teacher"is a type of: be - have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun)subtypes: -
Become discolored with, or as if with, mildew spots (synset 200511315)
is a type of: spot - become spotted
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