arctic fox

1. 1.

   thickly-furred fox of Arctic regions; brownish in summer and white in winter

   Synonymswhite foxAlopex lagopus

   Broaderfox

   Narrowerblue fox

   Part ofAlopex

Questions about arctic fox

What does arctic fox mean?

arctic fox means "thickly-furred fox of Arctic regions; brownish in summer and white in winter".

What is another word for arctic fox?

Close synonyms include white fox, Alopex lagopus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is arctic fox a common word?

arctic fox is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.