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Definition of Timber wolf
1. Noun. A wolf with a brindled grey coat living in forested northern regions of North America.
Definition of Timber wolf
1. Noun. (American English) the gray wolf, ''Canis lupus'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Timber Wolf
Literary usage of Timber wolf
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Good Hunting: In Pursuit of Big Game in the West by Theodore Roosevelt (1907)
"... IV THE TIMBER-WOLF HERE are two kinds of wolves found in the United States.
One is the little coyote or prairie-wolf, or barking-wolf, which never was ..."
2. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents: Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"S. Department of Agriculture, success of the timber wolf, in the forest preserves
furnished Timber wolves are returning of late years to Western Maine and ..."
3. Lake Maxinkuckee: A Physical and Biological Survey by Barton Warren Evermann, Howard Walton Clark (1920)
"Rarely are they seen before sundown, but on moonlit nights we have seen them out
over the lake as late as eleven o'clock. 5. timber wolf CANIS ..."