Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The American wolverene, Gulo luscus. See
wolverene . - noun Erroneously— the American badger, Taxidea americana;
- noun the cougar, Felis concolor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The wolverene; -- also applied, but erroneously, to the Canada lynx, and sometimes to the American badger. See
wolverene .
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- noun
Wolverine , a solitary, fierce member of the weasel family.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun stocky shaggy-coated North American carnivorous mammal
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Canadian voyageurs call the wolverene "carcajou;" while among the
Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850
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The Canadian voyageurs call the wolverene "carcajou;" while among the
The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North Mayne Reid 1850
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The carcajou, who cannot endure the water, quits his hold immediately; but, if the water happen to be at too great a distance, he will destroy the elk before he reaches it.
Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3) James Athearn Jones
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They manage the matter with so much adroitness, that they compel him to go to the place where they have left the carcajou, with whom they afterwards settle about dividing the prey.
Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3) James Athearn Jones
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The carcajou, or wild cat, is the natural enemy of the elk, which, by the by, has become almost as rare an animal on the western continent as the mastodon or mammoth.
Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3) James Athearn Jones
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Nearly the whole had perished from the assaults of beings against whom human weapons were useless -- who laughed at the puny resistance of mortals, and feared their battle less than the carcajou fears the mouse, or the canieu the humming-bird.
Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3) James Athearn Jones
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With a view to repair the fault he had committed, he called to him the carcajou, and bade him go up the tree, and release the sun by cutting the snare.
Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3) James Athearn Jones
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We picked up the packs and sticking close together moved on -- dodging another gray wolf and a coyote, and an animal that looked like a carcajou or wolverine, which snarled at us and wouldn't budge.
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On continuing their work the next day the children brought in word that a wolverine, or carcajou, had visited the log cache; so Meguir set off at once to investigate the story.
The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure Arthur Henry Howard Heming 1905
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New tracks marked the snow and showed where the carcajou had dragged it away.
The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure Arthur Henry Howard Heming 1905
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