wolf

About 10.06 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Canis lupus; the largest wild member of the canine subfamily.
2. noun Any of several related canines that resemble Canis lupus in appearance, especially those of the genus Canis.
3. noun A man who makes amorous advances to many women.
4. noun A wolf tone or wolf note.

   The soft violin solo was marred by persistent wolves.

5. noun Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.

   They toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.

6. noun One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.
7. noun A white worm which infests granaries, the larva of Nemapogon granella, a tineid moth.
8. noun A wolf spider (Lycosidae spp.).

Similar words

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Word family

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