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gray wolf

noun

  1. a wolf, Canis lupus, having a usually grizzled, blackish, or whitish coat: formerly common in Eurasia and North America, some subspecies are now reduced in numbers or near extinction.


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Origin of gray wolf1

An Americanism dating back to 1805–15
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