Arctic wolf

Arctic wolf
noun
wolf of Arctic North America having white fur and a black-tipped tail
Hypernyms: ↑wolf

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noun
Usage: often capitalized A
: a wolf of the arctic regions having white fur and a black-tipped tail and being perhaps a variety (Canis lupus tundrarum) of the timber wolf

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arctic wolf,
a big, shaggy wolf with a yellowish-white coat that lives in the tundras of arctic North America and Greenland; tundra wolf; white wolf.

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