DCHP-1 Online
brush 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: coyote (def. 1)
- 1937 (1950) A little "brush wolf," or coyote, stared at us from a high bank.
- 1950 "Brush wolf" the trappers of northern Alberta and Saskatchewan were calling the new penetrator into their grounds early in this century.
- 1966 [Caption] The men . . . used purebred Walker hounds as they bagged this 60-pound brush wolf this week [in Eastern Ontario].
2 the skin of the prairie wolf.
See also: coyote (def. 2)
- 1956 Brush wolves are not the fanciest of fur, but I gave him eight dollars for it.
- 1937 (1950) A little "brush wolf," or coyote, stared at us from a high bank.