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man-wolf

Noun

Meaning

man-wolf (plural man-wolves)

A werewolf or lycanthrope.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Characters who may work with what Sony is going for with the Sinister Six are classic Spider-Man villain Lizard, the Native American werecat Puma, and Man-Wolf, an astronaut who turns into a werewolf. Source: Internet

Greek λυκάνθρωπος and Germanic werewulf are parallel inasmuch as the concept of a shapeshifter becoming a wolf is expressed by means of a compound "wolf-man" or "man-wolf". Source: Internet

There were some examples of man-wolf transformations in the court literature of the time, notably Marie de France 's poem Bisclavret (c. 1200), in which the nobleman Bizuneh, for reasons not described, had to transform into a wolf every week. Source: Internet

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