Definitions for cross-fox

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Cross-Fox is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 95 anagrams from letters in cross-fox (-cfoorssx).

Definitions for cross-fox

noun

  1. a red fox in the color phase in which the fur is reddish brown with a dark stripe down the back and another over the shoulders.

Origin of cross-fox

First recorded in 1765-75

Examples for cross-fox

The grey fox (Canis cinereo-argenteus), and the cross fox (Canis decussatus), are likewise found here.

The cross fox is a cross between the black or silver and the red fox.

The so-called silver or blue, or black, or cross fox, is only the red fox with a blackish or bluish coat.

I has a rare fine catch of martens and minks, and one cross fox, three reds and seven whites, but I never catches a silver.

The value of the cross fox depends on the markings that give him his name.

When a single skin of the latter is worth only fifteen shillings, one of the cross fox will bring as much as five guineas.

I bought from him the skin of a cross fox for three dollars.

The cross fox, too, which Andy had killed and left in the trap, must be secured.

Wouldn't it be nice, now, if we could get a silver or a cross fox?

Sometimes the fur is only partly marked with black and then he is called a cross fox.

Word Value for cross-fox
Scrable

7

Words with friends

8

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