极地狐

極地狐
jídìhú
noun

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Meanings

  1. 1 Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus); polar fox

Examples

HSK 2
Jídìhú de máo dōngtiān huì biànchéng báisè.
The Arctic fox's coat turns white in winter.
HSK 5
Jídìhú shēnghuó zài Běijíquān fùjìn de hánlěng dìqū.
The Arctic fox lives in cold regions near the Arctic Circle.

Tips

memory
More commonly called 北极狐 in contemporary Chinese, but 极地狐 ('polar-region fox') is used in older zoological texts and in the THUOCL news corpus. Its seasonal white-to-brown coat change is one of the most dramatic in the mammal world.

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