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prairie wolf † 

• 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)  

  • 1836  The prairie wolf, the kit-fox and various marmots are peculiar to the plains.
  • 1963  Mishagunis--that's what the Crees call him, the grey jackal of the plains which we call in English the prairie wolf, but more often in corruption of its Aztec name, coyote--locally pronounced kī-yiut' or koy-yo'té.