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Definition of Desert fox
1. Noun. German field marshal noted for brilliant generalship in North Africa during World War II (1891-1944).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desert Fox
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, ..."