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brush wolf
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
a small wolf, Canis latrans, usually associated with the prairies but found across Canada, mainly in the region south of the range of the larger timber wolf.
See: coyote(def. 1)
Quotations
1937
A little "brush wolf," or coyote, stared at us from a high bank.
1950
"Brush wolf" the trappers of northern Alberta and Saskatchewan were calling the new penetrator into their grounds early in this century.
1966
[Caption] The men . . . used purebred Walker hounds as they bagged this 60-pound brush wolf this week [in Eastern Ontario].
2
the skin of the prairie wolf.
See: coyote(def. 2)
Quotations
1956
Brush wolves are not the fanciest of fur, but I gave him eight dollars for it.