lobon.
/ˈləʊbəʊ/, U.S. /ˈloʊboʊ/ a. A large grey wolf of the south-western U.S., Canis lupus occidentalis.In recent U.S. dictionaries.
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lobo1859
timber-wolf1860
loafer?1877
Japanese wolf1878
red wolf1942
1839 C. H. Smith Nat. Hist. Dogs (Naturalist's Libr.: Mammalia IX) I. 152 The Spanish wolves congregated formerly in the passes of the Pyrenees in large troops, and even now the lobo will accompany strings of mules as soon as it becomes dusky.]
1859 S. F. Baird Mammals N. Amer. ii. 14 Canis occidentalis, var. Mexicanus, Lobo Wolf.
1918 C. E. Mulford Man from Bar-20 ix. 88 What you saw was a bear or a lobo or a cougar come up to see th' fire.
1918 C. E. Mulford Man from Bar-20 ix. 93 The lobo wolf in the canyon.
1973 R. D. Symons Where Wagon Led i. v. 79 But there were still a few buffalo wolves about. We called them lobos.
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1907 ‘O. Henry’ Heart of West 220 I'm not one of them lobo wolves..who are always blaming on women the calamities of life.
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