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wolf
 
Noun wolf has 5 senses
  1. wolf - any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs
    --1 is a kind of     canine, canid
    --1 is a member of Canis, genus Canis
    --1 has particulars:
     timber wolf, gray wolf, Canis lupus; white wolf, Arctic wolf, Canis lupus tundrarum; red wolf, maned wolf, Canis rufus, Canis niger; coyote, prairie wolf, brush wolf, Canis latrans
  2. Wolf, Hugo Wolf - Austrian composer (1860-1903)
    --2 is a kind of composer
  3. Wolf, Friedrich August Wolf - German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824)
    --3 is a kind of classicist, classical scholar
  4. wolf, woman chaser, skirt chaser, masher - a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women
    --4 is a kind of womanizer, womaniser, philanderer
  5. beast, wolf, savage, brute, wildcat - a cruelly rapacious person
    --5 is a kind of attacker, aggressor, assailant, assaulter
Verb wolf has 1 sense
  1. wolf, wolf down - eat hastily; "The teenager wolfed down the pizza"
    --1 is one way to eat
    Sample sentence:
    They wolf more bread
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