[CROSS- 3 c.] A variety of the fox, having a dark marking along the back and another across the shoulders, forming a cross.
[1774. Crost fox: see CROSSED 1.]
1830. Gardens of Zool. Soc., I. 221. The Cross Fox of America.
1862. H. Marryat, Year in Sweden, I. 480. An animal … called the cross-fox, from its bearing a distinct black cross on the shoulders.
