Word Finder - wolves

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The gray wolf, specifically all subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) that are not dingoes or dogs.

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Check out my pet. He's a wolf.

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A man who makes amorous advances to many women.

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A wolf tone or wolf note.

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The soft violin solo was marred by persistent wolves.

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Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.

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They toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.

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One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.

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A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.

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An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.

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A willying machine.

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To behave like a wolf.

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Of an organ, to make a hollow whining sound like that of a wolf.

The fact is, when wolves attack a herd, they always take the weakest animal.

We do not smell like other wolves for protection.

A few wolves are also found.

It is to distinguish them from the grey, or timber, wolves that coyotes have received the name of "prairie-wolves"; the two titles indicating the nature of the respective habitats of the two species.

All wolves are governed by the ruling pack into which I was born.

Wolves also are not found in the island, though common in Greece and Asia Minor.

The domestic dogs of some North American Indian tribes closely resemble the coyote; the black wolfdog of Florida resembles the black wolf of the same region; the sheepdogs of Europe and Asia resemble the wolves of those countries, whilst the pariah dog of India is closely similar to the Indian wolf.

The ordinary colour of the wolf is yellowish or fulvous grey, but almost pure white and entirely black wolves are known.

Bears, mountain lions (pumas), wild cats (lynx) and wolves haunt the more remote fastnesses of the mountains; foxes abound; deer are found in many districts and moose in the north.

Occasionally it is still stated in the press that wolves have been seen in the Ardennes, but this is a mere fiction.

It's a black t shirt that features three wolves howling at a full moon.

Bears, wolves, bison, deer, wild turkeys and wild pigeons were common in the primeval forests of Ohio, but they long ago disappeared.

Hyenas, wolves and panthers are found in most parts of the country, and in the mountains the leopard and wild cat.

I've heard of wolves morphing in dire situations, but always thought they were just stories.

Bears, wild boars, hares, wolves, foxes and wild cats are very common, and in the north sables are found in great numbers.

As regards the fauna, the Carpathians still contain numerous bears, wolves and lynxes, as well as birds of prey.

Reindeer, followed by wolves, come also every year to the islands; the polar fox and polar bear, both feeding on the lemmings, are numerous.

The wolves' heart and toes contain magnets so the two halves can become one.

Excluding some varieties of domestic dogs, wolves are the largest members of the genus, and have a wide geographical range, extending over nearly the whole of Europe and Asia, and North America from Greenland to Mexico, but are not found in South America or Africa, where they are replaced by other members of the family.

To judge by the osteological remains which the researches of geologists have brought to light, there was perhaps scarcely a county in England or Wales in which, at one time or another, wolves did not abound, while in Scotland and Ireland they must have been still more numerous.

There is a well-known story of the last of the race being killed by Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochiel in 1680, but there is evidence of wolves having survived in Sutherlandshire and other parts into the following century (perhaps as late as 1743), though the date of their final extinction cannot be accurately fixed.

In Ireland, in Cromwell's time, wolves were particularly troublesome, and said to be increasing in numbers, so that special measures were taken for their destruction, such as the offering of large rewards for their heads, and the prohibition (in 1652) of the exportation of "wolf-dogs," the large dogs used for hunting the wolves.

Among the more common species of game are squirrels, opossums, musk-rats, rabbits, racoons, wild turkeys, ", partridges" (quail, or Bob White), geese, and ducks; deer, black bears, grey (or timber) wolves, black wolves and "wild cats" (lynx), once common, have become rare.

Originally great herds of bison roamed over the Texas plains, and deer, bears and wolves were numerous, especially in the forests.

Besides the wolf proper a large number of prairie or dog wolves from America and Asia are used for cheaper rugs.

Centuries of fighting against the Moors and Castilians had already left Portugal thinly populated.; large tracts of land were uncultivated, especially in Alemtejo, and wolves were still common throughout the kingdom.

It is my purpose also to give the names and number and times of those who through love of innovation have run into the greatest errors, and proclaiming themselves discoverers of knowledge, falsely so called, have like fierce wolves unmercifully devastated the flock of Christ.

Wolves (C. Bengalensis) are formidable in the wilder tracts, and assemble in troops on the snow, destroying cattle and sometimes attacking single horsemen.

He did this because he thought the hatred for Germany would create a negative feeling toward the breed, but it turned out that the hatred and fear of wolves was even worse than the bad feelings toward Germans at that time.

Wolves are more numerous, though only in the mountainous districts; the flocks are protected against them by large white sheep-dogs, who have some wolf blood in them.

It is singular that such closely allied species as the domestic dog and the Arctic fox are among the favourite prey of wolves, and, as is well known, children and even full-grown people are not infrequently the objects of their attack when pressed by hunger.

Thus Echinococci contains a leucomaine which sets up an urticaria; Cysticercus tenuicollis occasions anaemia and death if injecte-1 into rabbits; and the cystic fluid of the common Coenurus serialis is said to be used by Kirghizes to poison wolves.

In late days the Greeks report that KuvES (dogs) were the sacred animals of Anubis while those of Ophois were Aukoc (wolves).

A large part of the province was given up to pasture, and the mountains were covered with forests, which abounded in wild boars, bears and wolves.

This he found at Phthiotis in Thessaly, where he surprised some wolves eating sheep; on his approach they fled, leaving him the bones.

Deer, bighorn sheep, pronghorn antelope, wolves, and both black and grizzly bears are seen by many visitors.

Ranging from Canada in the north to Guatemala in the south, and chiefly frequenting the open plains on both sides of the chain of the Rocky Mountains, the coyote, under all its various local phases, is a smaller animal than the true wolf, and may apparently be regarded as the New World representative of the jackals, or perhaps, like the Indian wolf (C. pallipes), as a type intermediate between wolves and jackals.

In the 18th century wolves still roamed the country in such large numbers that hunting parties were organized against them; now they are unknown.

The Carnivora include bears, wolverines, wolves, raccoons, foxes, sables, martens, skunks, kolinskis, fitch, fishers, ermines, cats, sea otters, fur seals, hair seals, lions, tigers, leopards, lynxes, jackals, &c. The Rodentia include beavers, nutrias, musk-rats or musquash, marmots, hamsters, chinchillas, hares, rabbits, squirrels, &c. The Ungulata include Persian, Astrachan, Crimean, Chinese and Tibet lambs, mouflon, guanaco, goats, ponies, &c. The Marsupialia include opossums, wallabies and kangaroos.

The finest wolves are very light weighted and most suitable for carriage aprons, in fact, ideal for the purpose, though lacking the strength of some other furs.

Thus "Canis vulpes Linnaeus" is the specific designation of the common fox, Canis being the generic term common to dogs, wolves and so forth, and vulpes indicating the particular species, whilst the attached author's name indicates that Linnaeus first named the species in question.

Of wild animals, the pig, hyena, jackal, antelope and hare are extremely numerous; lions are still found, and wolves and foxes are not uncommon.

Foxes, martens, weasels, badgers and otters are to be found everywhere; bears are found in the Alps, wolves are rare, but they find their way sometimes from French territory to the western provinces, or from Poland to Prussia and Posen.

Wolves, once numerous, have now been almost extirpated, though a bounty on each head is still paid.

Wolves are rare.

Thus he invented nets for catching wolves and built innumerable water-mills, " for he would not let the waters run into the sea before they had been of use to the community."

Bears, wolves, foxes, boars and various varieties of game are found, and on some of the mountains the chamois.

Many of the original wild animals, such as the bison, bear, beaver, deer and lynx, have disappeared; wolves, foxes and mink are rare; but rabbits, squirrels and raccoons are still common.

Wolves (Canis lupus) abound throughout the open country, but are rare in the wooded districts.

Wolves are numerous in the mountains; the heron, ibis, wild goose and snipe in the valley of the Wei.