Definition of Desert fox

1. Noun. German field marshal noted for brilliant generalship in North Africa during World War II (1891-1944).

Exact synonyms: Erwin Rommel, Rommel
Generic synonyms: Field Marshal

Lexicographical Neighbors of Desert Fox

Deryck
Derzsy's disease
Des Moines
Desault's bandage
Descanso
Descartes
Descartes' law
Descartes law
Deschamps
Deschamps needle
Descurainia
Descurainia pinnata
Desderman
Desegregation
Deseret
Desert Fox
Desert Storm syndrome
Deshawn
Desi
Desiderius Erasmus
Desiree
Deskati
Desmanthus
Desmanthus ilinoensis
Desmarres' dacryoliths
Desmidiaceae
Desmidium
Desmodium
Desmodium gyrans
Desmodium motorium

Literary usage of Desert fox

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale (1884)
"The desert fox (Jerdon's No. 139). HABITAT.—Northern India, and also on the Western Coast about Cutch. DESCRIPTION—" Light fulvous on the face, ..."

2. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington by Biological Society of Washington (1903)
"The study of this material shows that the Canadian Kit Fox should be separated as a subspecies from Vulpes velox, that the desert fox of New Mexico and ..."

3. The Western Rajputana States: A Medico-topographical and General Account of by Archibald Adams (1899)
"The desert fox is found everywhere in the deserts of these States, where it lives on rats, eggs, and young birds. It cannot be hunted successfully here, ..."

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