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Hokkaido wolf

American

[ho-kahy-doh woolf] / hɒˈkaɪ doʊ ˈwʊlf /

noun

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.

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noun

Hokkaido wolves

plural

Etymology

Origin of Hokkaido wolf

First recorded in 1930–35

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