prairie wolf
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of prairie wolf
An Americanism dating back to 1795–1805
Example Sentences
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A prairie wolf, nine months old, was shot.
From Time Magazine Archive
These are the large or common wolf, and the barking or prairie wolf.
From Popular Adventure Tales by Mayne Reid
Then they heard the wail of a prairie wolf a short distance to the westward.
From The War Trail by Elmer Russell Gregor
On Grand Prairie, after dark, his ears were made familiar with the peculiar howl of the prairie wolf, numbers of which followed in his track for a distance of two or three miles.
From Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by John Algernon Owens
Coyote, ko-yōt′e, n. a prairie wolf, abundant in Mexico and Texas.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
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