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Definition of Wolf

1. Verb. Eat hastily. "They wolf more bread"; "The teenager wolfed down the pizza"

2. Noun. Any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs.

3. Noun. Austrian composer (1860-1903).

4. Noun. German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824).

5. Noun. A man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women.

6. Noun. A cruelly rapacious person.

Definition of Wolf

1. n. Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (C. occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.

2. n. Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (C. occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.

Definition of Wolf

1. Proper noun. The constellation Lupus. ¹

2. Noun. A large wild canid (member of the dog family), closely related to, and at times consanguineous to the domestic dog, which is considered a subspecies of the wolf. ¹

3. Noun. A man who makes amorous advances on many women. ¹

4. Noun. (music) A wolf tone or wolf note; an unpleasant tone produced when a note matches the natural resonating frequency of the body of a musical instrument, the quality of which may be likened to the howl of a wolf. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Wolf

1. a carnivorous mammal [n WOLVES] / to devour voraciously [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Wolf

1. Origin: OE. Wolf, wulf, AS. Wulf; akin to OS. Wulf, D. & G. Wolf, Icel. Ulfr, Sw. Ulf, Dan. Ulv, Goth. Wulfs, Lith. Vilkas, Russ. Volk', L. Lupus, Gr. Lykos, Skr. Vrika; also to Gr. "elkein to draw, drag, tear in pieces. Cf. Lupine, Lyceum. 1. Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (C. Occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man. 2. One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf. 3. Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door. 4. A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries. 5. An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus. "If God should send a cancer upon thy face, or a wolf into thy side." (Jer. Taylor) 6. The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament. In bowed instruments, a harshness due to defective vibration in certain notes of the scale. 7. A willying machine. Black wolf. Any one of several species of large, voracious marine fishes of the genus Anarrhichas, especially the common species (A. Lupus) of Europe and North America. These fishes have large teeth and powerful jaws. Called also catfish, sea cat, sea wolf, stone biter, and swinefish. Wolf net, a kind of net used in fishing, which takes great numbers of fish. Wolf's peach, a savage carnivorous marsupial (Thylacinus cynocephalus) native of Tasmania; called also Tasmanian wolf. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Wolf

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wold wolder wolders wolds wole wolf (current term) wolf's-claw wolf's-foot wolf's-milk wolf's bane

wolf's milk wolf-pack wolf-whistle wolf bean wolf boy wolf cub wolf cubs wolf dog wolf down wolf fish

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