dog-fox

• dogfox

From Middle English dogge fox. By surface analysis, dog +‎ fox.

dog-fox (plural dog-foxes)

1. A male fox.

   Synonym: tod

   • 1815, Walter Scott, “Canto Third”, in The Lord of the Isles, a Poem, Edinburgh: […] [F]or Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; by James Ballantyne and Co., […], →OCLC, stanza XXVI, page 115:

     Till sung his midnight hymn the owl, / Answer'd the dog-fox with his howl, / Then waked the King—at his request, / Lord Ronald stretch'd himself to rest.

   • 1969, Roger Waters, “Grantchester Meadows”, in Ummagumma, performed by Pink Floyd, Lupus Music:

     Hear the lark and harken to the barking of the dog fox / Gone to ground

2. The arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus, and especially the blue fox subspecies.
3. Any species of the genus Vulpes.

• fox

• (male fox): vixen (“female fox”)