Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. resembling or characteristic of a fox;
- Example: "vulpine cunning"
[syn: vulpine, vulpecular]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Vulpine \Vul"pine\ (?; 277), a. [L. vulpinus, from vulpes a fox.] Of or pertaining to the fox; resembling the fox; foxy; cunning; crafty; artful. [1913 Webster] Vulpine phalangist (Zool.), an Australian carnivorous marsupial (Phalangista vulpina syn. Trichosurus vulpina); -- called also vulpine phalanger, and vulpine opossum. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "vulpine": Machiavellian, Machiavellic, acute, arch, artful, astute, cagey, canine, canny, clever, crafty, cunning, cute, deceitful, deep, deep-laid, designing, diplomatic, doggy, feline, foxlike, foxy, guileful, ingenious, insidious, inventive, knowing, lupine, pawky, politic, ready, resourceful, scheming, serpentine, sharp, shifty, shrewd, slick, slippery, sly, smooth, snaky, sneaky, sophistical, stealthy, strategic, subtile, subtle, supple, tactical, trickish, tricksy, tricky, wary, wily, wolfish

