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Definition of Fennecs
1. fennec [n] - See also: fennec
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fennecs
Literary usage of Fennecs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Penny Cyclopædia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain), George Long (1838)
"In those districts the fennecs are hunted for their skins, for which there is a
market at Mecca ... Both these resembled the first, and were called fennecs. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"Lastly, we have the elegant little African foxes known as fennecs ... The skull
generally resembles that of the smaller foxes, particularly the fennecs. ..."
3. Introduction to Mammalia by Charles Hamilton Smith (1858)
"... with its additional teeth in both jaws, and perhaps still more in the first
section of Chaon, where we place the fennecs or ..."
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