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Definition of Arctic wolf
1. Noun. Wolf of Arctic North America having white fur and a black-tipped tail.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arctic Wolf
Literary usage of Arctic wolf
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Arctic Prairies: A Canoe-journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou by Ernest Thompson Seton (1911)
"The country was open and we scoured it with eye and glass, but saw nothing more
of the prowler. It seemed to be a young arctic wolf, yellowish white in ..."
2. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Adolphus Washington Greely (1912)
"... to the arctic wolf—fled a short distance the seaman at once ascended a small
knoll where he would be better placed for defence. ..."
3. Transactions and Proceedings by Perthshire Society of Natural Science (1903)
"arctic wolf Skull, Davis Straits—Capt. Adams. ... Eider Duck, Peregrine Falcon,
Iceland Falcon, Sabine Gull, arctic wolf, Skull of Polar Bear, ..."
4. The Last of the Arctic Voyages: Being a Narrative of the Expedition in H. M by Edward Belcher, John Richardson, Richard Owen, Thomas Bell, John William Salter, Lovell Reeve (1855)
"... and strongly resembling a very dark-coloured arctic wolf. I was indeed glad
to find that the articles which they preferred were likely to be of such ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... of the central plains, while in the )rth the arctic wolf (C. albus) is nearly
white with a black tail-tip, The gray vas formerly very abundant and ..."
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