Arctic wolf
English
Etymology
Arctic + wolf. From being a wolf found in the Canadian Arctic.
Alternative forms
- arctic wolf
Noun
Arctic wolf (countable and uncountable, plural Arctic wolves)
- (uncountable) Canis lupus arctos; A subspecies of the grey wolf, living in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, including once Greenland, that is all-white.
- (countable) An individual of the subspecies.
Synonyms
- polar wolf
- white wolf
Related terms
- Arctic fox
- Arctic hare