lobo
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Origin of lobo
1830–40; < Spanish < Latin lupus wolf
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Everything else about the lobo is hearsay, slander, exaggeration, fabrication, aspiration, or plain old myth.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 9, 2015
Gray wolves — also known as Canis lupus, timber wolves, prairie wolves and lobo — are the largest of the 41 species of wild canids, including red wolves, foxes, coyotes and short-eared dogs.
From Washington Post
The werewolf calls are authentic lobo cries, but for the squeak of bats in the night, a technician rubs a cork on the side of a bottle.
From Time Magazine Archive
Besides coyotes, which are everywhere common, the plains were infested by lobo wolves, a very large and powerful species; they denned in the breaks of the plains and it was then easiest to destroy them.
From Ranching, Sport and Travel by Carson, Thomas
A Korku clan has the name lobo which means a piece of cloth.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) by Russell, R. V. (Robert Vane)
As the wolf is to the wildcat—the lobos defeated Davidson’s felines in the second round—the tiger is to the wolf: bigger and beastlier.
From Slate ● Mar. 23, 2012
No. 13 Davidson Wildcats The wildcats toyed with cardinals in the first round, while the lobos stalked and slayed a band of 49ers.
From Slate ● Mar. 19, 2012
Hence, when Bernabe remarked, “You know, Carolina, I really wonder about Horsethief Shorty Wilson sometimes,” she would respond with: “Hay lobos con piel de oveja.”
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
She heard the were-wolf scourge of herds, fierce lobos snarl in silent groves of timber and shivered at the coyote's piercing yelps from grave yards in the valleys.
From Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales by Hartmann, George (Henry George August)
One part of it has no name, the other is called lobos; it consists entirely of cartilage and flesh.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William
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