From Feld(“field”), Wald(“forest”), and Wiese(“meadow”), that is, the habitat of most indigenous animals and plants. Thereby, a Feld-Wald-und-Wiesen-Fuchs is a common European fox, in contrast to e.g. a Wüstenfuchs(“fennec”). Later used jokingly in reference to matters other than biological species. Compare English garden variety, common-or-garden. Compare also the semantically different but formally similar Dutch huis-tuin-en-keuken-.