gray wolf

noun

a wolf, Canis lupus, having a usually grizzled, blackish, or whitish coat: formerly common in Eurasia and North America, some subspecies are now reduced in numbers or near extinction.
Compare timber wolf.

Origin of gray wolf

An Americanism dating back to 1805–15

Words nearby gray wolf

gray syndrome, gray trout, gray urn, gray water, gray whale, gray wolf, gray's inn, gray-cheeked thrush, gray-headed, gray-scale ultrasonography, grayanotoxin

Example sentences from the Web for gray wolf

  • In Gardiner there are a number of men, armed with rifles, who toward game have the gray-wolf quality of mercy.

    Our Vanishing Wild Life |William T. Hornaday