vulpinous

English

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

vulpinous (not comparable)

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 […]
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.