noun
wolf of Arctic North America having white fur and a black-tipped tail
• Syn: ↑white wolf, ↑Canis lupus tundrarum
• Hypernyms: ↑wolf
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nounUsage: 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.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.