arctic wolf

1. 1.

   wolf of Arctic North America having white fur and a black-tipped tail

   Synonymswhite wolfCanis lupus tundrarum

   Broaderwolf

Questions about arctic wolf

What does arctic wolf mean?

arctic wolf means "wolf of Arctic North America having white fur and a black-tipped tail".

What is another word for arctic wolf?

Close synonyms include white wolf, Canis lupus tundrarum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is arctic wolf a common word?

arctic wolf is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.