“Red Fox and Winter Coat” art print by Peter Beneyfield

vulpine (VUL-pine), adj.

"pertaining to a fox, fox-like," 1628, from L. vulpinus "of or pertaining to a fox," from vulpes, earlier volpes (gen. vulpis, volpis) "fox," of unknown origin.

vulpicide, n.
1. One who kills a fox except in hunting
2. The act of so killing a fox

Vulpinism, n. The quality of being cunning like the fox; craft; artfulness.
vulpecular, adj. of a fox, esp. a young one; vulpine




Vulpecula, -in astronomy, “the Little Fox”, a small northern constellation between Cygnus and Aquila


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-Webster's New World Dictionary
-Yourdictionary.com

"She evaded his clumsy attentions with vulpine ease."
"Not wanting to share his pear tree with the fox he committed coldhearted premeditated vulpicide that very evening just before sunset."
"His vulpinisms were effective in concealing the least hint of his crafty intentions from his acquaintances' trusting natures."

AULONOCARA sp. OB morph - hybrid

piscine (PAHY-seen ; PIS-ahyn), adjective
fish-like, or pertaining to fishes

pisciform (PAHY-see-form), adjective
shaped like a fish

piscivorous (pahy-SIV-er-uhs), adjective
fish-eating (Terns and cormorants are piscivorous birds.)

piscivore (PAHY-see-vor), noun
a piscivorous animal

Most mermaids have a piscine lower body, with the feet having evolved into the most definte pisciform appendages seen among mammals. Their personality, however, is more vulpine than piscine. This aids them to survive being preyed upon by the piscivorous octoman, the most dangerous of all piscivores due to its lupine nature.

Interesting! "Piscine" is the French word for "swimming pool"

It would be nice to combine the French and English meanings and have a pisciform swimming pool! a piscine piscine!

I see that piscina is used in English to name a shallow basin near the altar of a church used to wash communion vessels. I wonder what it means in Spanish or Italian.

bovid (BOH-vid), adj.

of the ox family (Bovidae) of ruminants (cud-chewers), having hollow unbranched horns: cattle, sheep, antelopes, etc. All bovids have four toes on each foot – they walk on the central two (the hoofs), the outer two (the dew-claws) rarely touch the ground

bovine (BOH-vine), adj.
1. of or pertaining to the subfamily Bovinae of the family Bovidae , split-hoofed cud-chewers: oxen, cows, water buffalos, bison, yaks and spiral-horned antelopes.

2. oxlike, cowlike
3. slow, patient, stolid
4. Noun, an ox , cow or similar animal

Family Bovidae
 Subfamily Bovinae: cattle and spiral-horned antelopes, 26 species in 10 genera
 Subfamily Cephalophinae: duikers, 19 species in 2 genera
 Subfamily Hippotraginae: grazing antelopes, 6 species in 5 genera
 Subfamily Antilopinae: gazelles, dwarf antelopes and the saiga, 34 species in 13 genera
 Subfamily Caprinae: sheep, goats, 33 species in 10 genera
 Subfamily Reduncinae: reedbucks, lechwe, 8 species in 2 genera
 Subfamily Aepycerotinae: impala, 1 species in 1 genus
 Subfamily Peleinae: rhebok, 1 species in 1 genus
 Subfamily Alcelaphinae: wildebeest, topi/tsessebe, 7 species in 4 genera
 Subfamily Pantholopinae: Chiru

Squamish (SKWOM-ish, SKWAW-mish), noun, plural –mishes, esp. collectively, -mish for 1.

1. a member of a North American Native people of the southwestern coast of British Columbia, Canada, including North and West Vancouver. In their native language the name means “people of sacred drinking water.”

2. the Salishan (nearly extinct) language of the Squamish people.

"The Squamish were a sedentary coastal hunter/gatherer nation that relied heavily on fishing. They were located on Howe Sound and Burrard Inlet north of the mouth of the Fraser River. The Nooksack of Washington separated from the Squamish prior to White arrival." - http://www.fourdir.com/squamish.htm

I grew up in this area. To drive to Deep Cove in Burrard Inlet we had to drive through this First Nations territory.

Chief Dan George, the actor, came from this part of B.C., too.

I like the art! When I think of the coastal people, I immediately think of 2 things- salmon and cedar forests.

Chief Dan George in the world premiere of George Ryga's seminal Canadian play, The Ecstasy of Rita Joe (1967/68 season) Photo by Mac Parry

There is also a town of that name which lies up the coast a bit, near Whistler, BC.

Cajun (KEY-juhn, KAY- juhn), also Cajan or caijan, noun

–noun
1. a person of a group whose French Catholic ancestors established communities in Louisiana and Maine after being expelled from Acadia in the late 18th century
2. the French dialect of the Cajuns.
3. often a member of a group living in southern Alabama and southeast Mississippi, of mixed white, Black, and Native American ancestry.

–adjective
4. of, or pertaining to Cajuns, esp. of those of Louisiana: Cajun cooking.

[1868, Cagian, dialectic pronunciation of Acadian, from Acadia, former French colony in what is now Canadian Maritimes. Its Fr. setters were dispersed and exiled by the English and thousands made their way to New Orleans in the period 1764-1788. – Online Etymology Dictionary]

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A•ca•di•a
A region and former French colony of eastern Canada, chiefly in Nova Scotia but also including New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Cape Breton Island, and the coastal area from the St. Lawrence River south into Maine. During the French and Indian War (1755-1763) many Acadians migrated or were deported by the British to southern territories, including Louisiana, where their descendants came to be known as Cajuns. – American Heritage Dictionary

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Cajuns were officially recognized by the U.S. government as a national ethnic group in 1980 per a discrimination lawsuit filed in federal district court. -wikipedia

Laissez les bon temps rouler is a cliché phrase of the local culture, which means "let the good times roll." -wikipedia

http://www.lsu.edu/highlights/052/cajun.html - an article 24 March 2008, LSU offers classes in basic Cajun French.