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# fox

«fox» in Mova's school dictionary: **a wild animal of the dog family with a pointed nose…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a fox, foxes; a vixen — female); verb (fox, foxes, foxed — to confuse)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A fox is a wild animal of the dog family with a pointed nose, pointed ears, reddish fur and a long bushy tail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fox/#m1)

2) To fox someone means to confuse or trick them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fox/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science and nature, foxes are mammals and omnivores: they eat mice, rabbits, insects, fruit and food from bins; many live in cities in the UK, Ireland and Australia, where they were brought from Europe. They are mostly active at night (nocturnal) and live in dens. In safety, never feed or touch a wild fox. In stories and fables, the fox is clever and sneaky, like in «The Fox and the Grapes» and «The Gingerbread Man». A female is a vixen, a baby is a cub or kit.

### examples

- A fox ran across our garden last night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fox/#x1)
- The fox has a long bushy tail. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fox/#x2)
- Foxes live in holes called dens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fox/#x3)
- The fox tricked the gingerbread man. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fox/#x4)
- A mother fox is called a vixen. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fox/#x5)
- Keep chickens safe from foxes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fox/#x6)
- This puzzle has really foxed me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fox/#x7)
- Arctic foxes turn white in winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fox/#x8)
- For dinner the Fox served soup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fox/#x9)

### note

Plural «foxes» (add -es after x). Female «vixen», young «cubs» or «kits». «As cunning as a fox» means clever and sly. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog: a sentence that uses every letter of the alphabet. In Australia foxes are an introduced pest.

### In the corpora

- [Almost everyone wants to eat a mouse: cats, owls, foxes, weasels, snakes and hawks.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/120-how-real-mice-survive/0/)
- [Picture a city garden at midnight: a fox trots past the bins and somewhere a rabbit freezes, then zigzags away.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/3/)
- [Red foxes live on more continents than any other wild meat-eating mammal, and many live in cities such as London.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/6/)
- [City foxes are active mostly at night and find food in gardens and bins, so they need smaller areas than country foxes.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/7/)
- [An Arctic fox mother can have over ten cubs in a good lemming year.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/150-myth-check-do-lemmings-jump-off-cliffs/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fox» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fox/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.