Hokkaido wolf
[ ho-kahy-doh woolf ]
noun,plural Hok·kai·do wolves [ho-kahy-doh woolvz]. /hɒˈkaɪ doʊ ˈwʊlvz/.
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.
Origin of Hokkaido wolf
1First recorded in 1930–35
- Also called Ez·o wolf [ez-oh woolf], /ˈɛz oʊ ˈwʊlf/, Sa·kha·lin wolf [sak-uh-lin woolf, -leen] /ˈsæk əˌlɪn ˈwʊlf, -ˌlin/ .
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