grey wolf

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   a wolf with a brindled grey coat living in forested northern regions of North America

   Synonymstimber wolfgray wolfCanis lupus

   Broaderwolf

Questions about grey wolf

What does grey wolf mean?

grey wolf means "a wolf with a brindled grey coat living in forested northern regions of North America".

What is another word for grey wolf?

Close synonyms include timber wolf, gray wolf, Canis lupus. 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 grey wolf a common word?

grey wolf is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.