RED FOX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does red fox mean? 

• RED FOX (noun)
  The noun RED FOX has 3 senses:

1. weedy annual with spikes of silver-white flowers

2. New World fox; often considered the same species as the Old World fox

3. the common Old World fox; having reddish-brown fur; commonly considered a single circumpolar species

  Familiarity information: RED FOX used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RED FOX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Weedy annual with spikes of silver-white flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Celosia argentea; red fox

Hypernyms ("red fox" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Holonyms ("red fox" is a member of...):

Celosia; genus Celosia (annual or perennial herbs or vines of tropical and subtropical America and Asia and Africa)

Sense 2

Meaning:

New World fox; often considered the same species as the Old World fox

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

red fox; Vulpes fulva

Hypernyms ("red fox" is a kind of...):

fox (alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail; most are predators that do not hunt in packs)

Holonyms ("red fox" is a member of...):

genus Vulpes; Vulpes (foxes)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The common Old World fox; having reddish-brown fur; commonly considered a single circumpolar species

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

red fox; Vulpes vulpes

Hypernyms ("red fox" is a kind of...):

fox (alert carnivorous mammal with pointed muzzle and ears and a bushy tail; most are predators that do not hunt in packs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "red fox"):

black fox (red fox in the color phase when its pelt is mostly black)

silver fox (red fox in the color phase when its pelt is tipped with white)

Holonyms ("red fox" is a member of...):

genus Vulpes; Vulpes (foxes)

 Context examples 

The red fox made him say all this, I knew, to exhibit him to me in the light he had indicated on the night when he poisoned my rest.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)