vulpinous

English

Etymology

From vulpine +‎ -ous, borrowed from Latin vulpīnus (“foxy, fox-like”), from vulpēs, earlier volpēs (“fox”).

Adjective

vulpinous (not comparable)

1. of a reddish colour, rufous
   • 1909, Transactions Of The American Entomological Society Of Landan Vol 35, page 340:

     […] the bristles of the head, thorax and scutellum verging toward vulpinous […]

2. foxlike in nature or appearance
   • 2009, “Chin Chin & Muck Muck”, in What Will We Be, performed by Devendra Banhart:

     We're vulpinous vultures

   • 2017 October 27, Kevin Sweeney, “Chapter 5”, in The Martian Fairytales‎^[1]:

     Alongside, there was an odd-looking hat stand; it didn’t have any hats hanging on it, in fact, it had two masks, how odd she thought, the one looked Vulpinous, the other was distinctly birdlike.