wolflike

English

Etymology

wolf + -like

Adjective

wolflike (comparative more wolflike, superlative most wolflike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a wolf.
    • 1903, Jack London, The Call of the Wild, New York: Macmillan, Chapter 2, p. 62,
      And when, on the still cold nights, he pointed his nose at a star and howled long and wolflike, it was his ancestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at star and howling down through the centuries through him.

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