vulpine

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Ensemble Vulpine Lupin performed “Gravity of Shadows,” a mesmerizing study in tenebrous shades and timbres by Morgan Krauss, a young composer from Columbia College.

From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2012

N. B. Some of the early impressions of the plates have erroneously Wulpine Oppossum for Vulpine Opossum.

From The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789) by Phillip, Arthur

The true Vulpine Opossum—which is a native of Australia, near Port Jackson—is very much like a small fox; but there are two sub-genera of the phalangers that differ much from this form.

From Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys by Harvey, William

Vulpine, vul′pin, adj. relating to or like the fox: cunning.—adj.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

It is since dead, and the teeth are found to be disposed as now stated, and as represented in the scull of the Vulpine Opossum, in the same plate with that of the Kanguroo.

From The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789) by Phillip, Arthur