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单词 dog-wolf
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dog-wolfn.

Brit. /ˈdɒɡwʊlf/, U.S. /ˈdɔɡˌwʊlf/, /ˈdɑɡˌwʊlf/
Forms: see dog n.1 and wolf n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: dog n.1, wolf n.
Etymology: < dog n.1 + wolf n. With sense 2 compare earlier wolf-dog n. 2.
1. A male wolf.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Canis > canis lupus (wolf) > male
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1557 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Diall Princes f. 114v/2 Which ye dogge wolfe doth prouide both for the byche and her whealpes.
1674 J. Josselyn Acct. Two Voy. 22 When the Wolves have kill'd a beast..not a Dog-Wolf amongst them offers to eat any of it, till the she-Wolves have fill'd their paunches.
1735 Sportsman's Dict. II. at Wolf A dog-wolf may be known from a bitch by the tracts of his feet.
1787 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 77 255 I happened to see a Dog-wolf.
1861 G. H. Kingsley in F. Galton Vacation Tourists & Trav. 1860 iv. 128 He only succeeded in gaining the descent of the hill..before another, a male or dog wolf, was noticed in full chase after him.
1901 W. S. Blunt Diary 14 Feb. in My Diaries (1923) II. i. 4 He was a fine dog-wolf, about the size of a collie dog, with reddish legs.
1938 W. H. Hamilton Dakota in S. Dakota Hist. Coll. (1941) 29 iv. 603 This was a dog wolf and we knew that his mate and whelps were in there somewhere.
1990 W. M. Gear & K. O. Gear People of Wolf 187 He went on about a little dog-wolf. Brown, he said, with a bushy tail.
2. A hybrid between a domestic dog and a wolf; = wolf-dog n. 2.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > [noun] > genus Canis > canis lupus (wolf) > hybrid dog and wolf
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1840 C. H. Smith Nat. Hist. Dogs (Naturalist's Libr.: Mammalia X) II. 119 Feral Dog of Russia... It is possible that the dog-wolves of the Canopian Gulph, on the Palus Mæotis.., were of this type.
a1858 C. Darwin in R. C. Stauffer Charles Darwin's Nat. Select. (1975) 436 He [sc. M. Flourens] finds that when bred inter se the dog-wolves invariably become sterile at the third generation.
1907 Kennel Encycl. I. 159 At a dog show at Spa, in 1882, several ‘Dog-wolves’ were exhibited, and the animals so termed in the catalogue.
2005 S. Choron & H. Choron Planet Dog i. 45 White Fang (1991). Disney's version of Jack London's classic adventure story about the friendship between a Yukon gold hunter and the mixed dog-wolf he rescues.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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