kit fox

noun

either of two small gray foxes, Vulpes macrotis and V. velox, found on plains and in open, sandy areas of western North America, commercially valuable for their fur.

kit fox

Origin of kit fox¹

1795–1805, Americanism; probably special use of kit ³

It is quite plain that the little kit fox or swift is of a kind distinct from other foxes.

Still another species, the smallest and perhaps the most interesting of any, is the “kit fox.”

Little, dried-up geezer with a nose like a kit-fox's and a whine to his voice.

Like his cousin, the Kit Fox, he is not especially quick-witted.

Droppings of the kit fox show an abundance of bones of small mammals of kangaroo rat size, among them those of spectabilis.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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