black fox

English
A black fox (sense 1).

Noun

black fox (plural black foxes)

  1. Synonym of silver fox, especially in reference to foxskin.
    • 1914, Canada. Commission of Conservation. Committee on Fisheries, Game and Fur-bearing Animals, Jones, John Walter, 1878-, Fur-farming in Canada‎, Ottawa: Mortimer, →LCCN:
      This is particularly true of the black fox industry. The fur-value of a high-grade prime black fox skin ranges from about $500 to about $2,500
    • 2008, Kirsch, Sharon, 1960-, What species of creatures : animal relations from the New World‎, Vancouver: New Star Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:
      Prince Edward Island is the world's headquarters of “Silver Fox” ranching. It was here that the problems of domesticating and breeding the black fox were solved , and the development has attracted world-wide attention.
  2. (rare) Synonym of Blanford's fox [1][2]

References
  1. “Blanford's fox”, in Breeding Centre for Endangered Arabian Wildlife‎, 2009, archived from the original on 4 March 2009
  2. Canids of the World (Princeton Field Guides), Princeton University Press, 2018, →ISBN, page 237
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