vulpinous

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"[…]the bristles of the head, thorax and scutellum verging toward vulpinous[…]"
"We're vulpinous vultures"
"Alongside, there was an odd-looking hat stand; it didn’t have any hats hanging on it, in fact, it had two masks, how odd she thought, the one looked Vulpinous, the other was distinctly birdlike."

From vulpine + -ous, borrowed from Latin vulpīnus (“foxy, fox-like”), from vulpēs, earlier volpēs (“fox”).

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