VULPES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Vulpes mean? 

• VULPES (noun)
  The noun VULPES has 1 sense:

1. foxes

  Familiarity information: VULPES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VULPES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Foxes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Vulpes; Vulpes

Hypernyms ("Vulpes" is a kind of...):

mammal genus (a genus of mammals)

Meronyms (members of "Vulpes"):

red fox; Vulpes vulpes (the common Old World fox; having reddish-brown fur; commonly considered a single circumpolar species)

red fox; Vulpes fulva (New World fox; often considered the same species as the Old World fox)

kit fox; prairie fox; Vulpes velox (small grey fox of the plains of western North America)

kit fox; Vulpes macrotis (small grey fox of southwestern United States; may be a subspecies of Vulpes velox)

Holonyms ("Vulpes" is a member of...):

Canidae; family Canidae (dogs; wolves; jackals; foxes)

 Context examples 

Research conducted in the Himalayan Mountains identify a recently discovered three to five million-year-old Tibetan fox, Vulpes qiuzhudingi, as the likely ancestor of the living arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus.

("Out of Tibet" hypothesis: Cradle of evolution for cold-adapted mammals is in Tibet, NSF)