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Definition of Prairie fox
1. Noun. Small grey fox of the plains of western North America.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prairie Fox
Literary usage of Prairie fox
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fur-bearing Animals in Nature and in Commerce by Henry Poland (1892)
"The fur is very dense, and the tail is tipped with black. The prairie fox is
rarely met with, and but little is known of its habits. ..."
2. Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National by John Walter Osborne (1870)
"The prairie fox, the Cross fox, and the Black or Silver-gray fox, seem only
varieties of the Red fox, as the black squirrel breeds with the gray, ..."
3. The Fur Trade of America by Agnes Christina Laut (1921)
"His cousin with the black fore feet, the prairie fox, who is the largest and ...
The color of the prairie fox shades rather to pale ochre and yellow than ..."
4. The Fur Trade of America by Agnes Christina Laut (1921)
"His cousin with the black fore feet, the prairie fox, who is the largest and ...
The color of the prairie fox shades rather to pale ochre and yellow than ..."
5. Wake-robin by John Burroughs (1904)
"The prairie fox, the cross fox, and the black or silver-gray fox seem only
varieties of the red fox, as the black squirrel breeds from the gray, ..."
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