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Hokkaido wolf

[ ho-kahy-doh woolf ]

noun

, plural Hok·kai·do wolves [ho-, kahy, -doh , woolvz].
  1. a wolf, Canis lupus hattai, one of two subspecies of gray wolf indigenous to the Japanese archipelago, but extinct since the mid-20th century, believed to have last survived on the Russian island of Sakhalin. Compare Japanese wolf ( def ).


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Hokkaido wolf1

First recorded in 1930–35

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