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wood wolf

• 1 a small wolf, Canis latrans, usually associated with the prairies but found across Canada, mainly in the region south of the range of the larger timber wolf.

  See also: brush wolf  

  • 1908  I think the wood wolf inhabiting the plains country is much smaller than the kind found further north, and also lighter in color. . . .

• 2 a large, usually gray, wolf, Canis lupus occidentalis, found in the northern forest.

  See also: timber wolf  

  • 1922  . . . we saw an exciting chase between a large wood wolf and a caribou.