"curtailed fox" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Coined in 1904 by zoologist Daniel Giraud Elliot.",
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      "form": "curtailed foxes",
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        "plural"
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2011, H. O. Clark, Jr., “The history of arid-land fox discoveries in North America”, in Archives of natural history, Edinburgh University Press, →DOI, page 310:",
          "text": "Elliot (1905: 385) provided a common name for Vulpes mutica, the curtailed fox. Elliot was the first to match the specific epithet gender with the generic gender: V. mutica rather than V. muticus.",
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      "glosses": [
        "A San Joaquin kit fox (Vulpes macrotis mutica)."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rare) A San Joaquin kit fox (Vulpes macrotis mutica)."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare"
      ]
    }
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  "word": "curtailed fox"
}

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  "etymology_text": "Coined in 1904 by zoologist Daniel Giraud Elliot.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "curtailed foxes",
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        "plural"
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      "glosses": [
        "A San Joaquin kit fox (Vulpes macrotis mutica)."
      ],
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        "(rare) A San Joaquin kit fox (Vulpes macrotis mutica)."
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        "rare"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "curtailed fox"
}