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Definition of Kit fox

1. Noun. Small grey fox of southwestern United States; may be a subspecies of Vulpes velox.

2. Noun. Small grey fox of the plains of western North America.

Medical Definition of Kit fox

1. Kit fox, a small burrowing fox (Vulpes velox), inhabiting the region of the Rocky Mountains. It is brownish gray, reddish on the breast and flanks, and white below. Called also swift fox. (11 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kit Fox

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Literary usage of Kit fox

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

1. Societies of the Plains Indians by Clark Wissler (1916)
"THE KIT-FOX. Kit-fox was the name of an extinct Piegan society still regarded as very ... 1 In the main it is correct to regard the horns and kit-fox as one ..."

2. The Modern Voyager & Traveller, Through Europe, Asia, Africa, & America by William Adams (1832)
"... the common red fox, the silver fox, fisher or black fox, the large red fox of the plains, the kit fox, or small fox of the plains ; the antelope, ..."

3. Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History by American Museum of Natural History (1909)
"This was the Kit-Fox Society, and a Kit-Fox man was showing the others how to perform the ceremony. He directed them through the whole ritual. ..."

4. Technique of Some South American Feather-work by Charles Williams Mead (1908)
"The Kit-fox started. He went along a path in the woods. As he went, he smelt something ... The Kit-fox went off. When at some distance, he called to the ..."

5. History of the Expedition Under the Command of Lewis and Clark: To the by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Elliott Coues, Thomas Jefferson (1893)
"kit-fox \V. velox] or small red fox of the plains, are the same which are found ... The kit-fox, V. velox, is entirely distinct from all the other American ..."

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