"vulpiform" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From vulp + -iform.",
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      "form": "more vulpiform",
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      "form": "most vulpiform",
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          "ref": "1858 May 15, Spirit of the Times ; A Chronicle of the Turn, Agriculture, Field Sports, and the Stage, volume 28, number 14, page 161:",
          "text": "The flying fox (vespertillo vulpicephalus) […] The facial features of this animal are vulpiform, and ferocity is signified by the punishment which it inflicts with its dental armory (for the teeth of this extraordinary-formed creature are of the canine character).",
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          "ref": "1992 December 30, Clive Grace's profile photo Clive Grace, alt.callahans (Usenet):",
          "text": "He's a reddish human sized fox (vulpiform), on hind feet, bushy tail -- he wears a grey trenchcoat and a brown satchel is strapped around his shoulder […]",
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          "ref": "2004, Michael Bathgate, The Fox's Craft in Japanese Religion and Culture: Shapeshifters, Transformations and Duplicities, page 476:",
          "text": "[…] is Inari the spirit of rice (as suggested in the earliest records of Inari as ujigami of the Hata clan), or is it a wish-fulfilling vulpiform divinity, comparable to the Buddhist-style Kiko tennō venerated by Taira no Kiyomori in his rise to political power?",
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  "word": "vulpiform"
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          "ref": "1992 December 30, Clive Grace's profile photo Clive Grace, alt.callahans (Usenet):",
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