silver fox

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   red fox in the color phase when its pelt is tipped with white

   Broaderred fox

Questions about silver fox

What does silver fox mean?

silver fox means "red fox in the color phase when its pelt is tipped with white".

Is silver fox a common word?

silver 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.