Crossword clues for fennec
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fennec \Fen"nec\ (f[e^]n"n[e^]k), n. [Ar. fanek.] (Zo["o]l.) A small, African, foxlike animal ( Vulpes zerda) of a pale fawn color, remarkable for the large size of its ears.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fox-like animal of Africa, 1790, from Arabic fenek, fanak "a name vaguely applied to various fur-bearing animals" [OED].
Wiktionary
n. A small fox of the species ''Vulpes zerda'', found in the Sahara (excluding the coast) and having distinctive oversized ears.
Wikipedia
Fennec or Fennek may refer to:
- Fennec fox, a small nocturnal fox found in the Sahara desert
- Fennec, codename of the Free software fork of the Mozilla Firefox for Mobile web browser
- Les Fennecs, a nickname for the Algeria national football team
- Maryann Fox, or Fennek Suicide, one of the Suicide Girls
- Silas Fennec, a character in China Miéville's novel The Scar
- Fennec (climate program), a climate program in the central Sahara
- Fennec (TV Series), a French 1998 Cartoon series
- Fennec, a variant of the T-28 Trojan piston-engined aeroplane
- Eurocopter Fennec, a lightweight helicopter
- LGS Fennek, a four-wheeled armed reconnaissance vehicle
Fennec is a large-scale, international, multi-institutional, multi-platform, observational, modelling and satellite climate program in the Saharan Heat Low region (southern Algeria, eastern Morocco, Northern Mauritania, Northern Mali and Northern Niger). The Saharan Heat Low is a key component of the West African Monsoon and is the location of the largest mineral aerosol loadings on the planet in the northern summer. The inhospitable, vast area of the Heat Low has virtually no routine meteorological observations. Knowledge of the key atmospheric processes in this important region is therefore very limited and this knowledge deficit results in reduced performance of both weather and climate prediction in and well beyond the north/west African region. The Fennec project is designed to address this knowledge deficit. It is the first major climate program in the central Sahara. The ideas for Fennec, which is a British, French and German initiative, grew out of the African Multidisciplinary Monsoon Analysis (AMMA). Fennec is the project name – it is not an acronym.
Fennec is a French animated series, about a Fennec fox of the same name who solves little mysteries in the peaceful town of Chewington.
Usage examples of "fennec".
Cumbershum gestured Bellis and Fennec quickly into the back of the submersible.
When Fennec reappeared, walking quickly across the poop deck, Bellis intercepted him.
I was lying, I wanted to find Johannes or Fennec, I want to see what is happening elsewhere.
Murrigan and Ettenry and Cohl Gimgewry Yoreling Tearfly my Johannes glimpsing at me swiftly and with a sudden smile before swept away in a crowd, and Fennec somewhere his head down still, and all of us look made of roughcut paper in this light.
They sat in silence for a little while, drinking the wine Fennec had brought.
A massive, freshwater, inland sea ringed by mountains and scrubland and swamps and the few hardy, remote civilizations that Fennec claimed to know.
She wondered whether Fennec would come by again, and when he did not, she went to bed in an irritated burst of boredom.
Deep within it, nestled in the folds of her spare skirts, was the little leather pouch and its contents that Silas Fennec had given her, along with the letter she was writing.
No matter what might happen, she would not deal with Silas Fennec like this again.
Silas Fennec remained in The Pashakan for a long time after Bellis left.
At the front, almost beside the Brucolac, stood the ragged woman who had watched Fennec in The Pashakan.
Silas Fennec was still free in the city, having seen his attempted rescue fail, and there was only one thing that could be done.
But when she told him what she had done, what she had couriered for Fennec, then quite suddenly Doul had exploded with anger.
Instantly Silas Fennec brought up the statue in his hand and slammed his tongue deep into its gorge.
Silas Fennec felt a tremor from the lascivious tongue of his stone icon, and puissance roared through him.