crab-eating fox

1. 1.

   wild dog of northern South America

   Synonymscrab-eating dogDusicyon cancrivorus

   Broaderwild dog

Questions about crab-eating fox

What does crab-eating fox mean?

crab-eating fox means "wild dog of northern South America".

What is another word for crab-eating fox?

Close synonyms include crab-eating dog, Dusicyon cancrivorus. 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 crab-eating fox a common word?

crab-eating 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.