gray wolf

Noun

Meaning

a wolf with a brindled grey coat living in forested northern regions of North America

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

grey wolf timber wolf Canis lupus wolf canine lobo Big Bad Wolf common wolf canine native european wolf western wolf

Antonyms

Felidae

Hypernyms

wolf

Examples

Literature was not born the day when a boy crying "wolf, wolf" came running out of the Neanderthal valley with a big gray wolf at his heels; literature was born on the day when a boy came crying "wolf, wolf" and there was no wolf behind him. Vladimir Nabokov

A gray wolf is captured by a remote camera on U.S. Forest Service land in Oregon in 2017. Source: Internet

A gray wolf hunt can be divided into five stages: * Locating prey: The wolves travel in search of prey through their power of scent, chance encounter, and tracking. Source: Internet

Behavior main seeAlso Social and territorial behaviors Gray wolf pack The gray wolf is a social animal, whose basic social unit consists of a mated pair, accompanied by the pair's adult offspring. Source: Internet

Since 2017, 13 species — and now the gray wolf — have fully recovered and no longer need to be listed under the Endangered Species Act’s List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife. Source: Internet

For example, the gray wolf 's binomial name is with Canis (Lat. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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