wolf

/wʊlf/

The gray wolf, specifically all subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) that are not dingoes or dogs.

Check out my pet. He's a wolf.

A man who makes amorous advances to many women.

A wolf tone or wolf note.

The soft violin solo was marred by persistent wolves.

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

They toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.

One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.

A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.

An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.

A willying machine.