red wolf
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- noun
- /rɛd wʊlf/
- US
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lobo rojo
- Well, the first text to include a mention of a red wolf in North America is John James Audubon and John Bachman's The Quadrupeds of North America, Volume 2 (1851).
- wild red wolf
- endangered red wolves
- pair of red wolves
Examples
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The red wolf is known for its unique reddish fur and slender appearance, making it distinct from other wolf species.
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So he suggested that the red wolf be considered an endangered subspecies.
Blog text (32) -
The rule does not affect the endangered listing of the red wolf under the ESA.
Academic text (2006) -
So-called red wolves are roaming in several reserves in the Southeast now, but the main population is in Eastern North Carolina.
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So the historical record shows that the red wolf, as we know it now, never existed in the wild until after wolves had been persecuted in East Texas and Louisiana.
Blog text (32) -
In Bruce Hampton's The Great American Wolf, there is a photo of a red wolf that was captured in Arkansas in the early 1900s.
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As a result, there still are no official guidelines for dealing with hybrids under the ESA—which is bad news for animals such as the red wolf.
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The red wolf, once thought to be extinct, is now being reintroduced into its natural habitat in North Carolina.
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Conservationists are working hard to protect the endangered red wolf and increase its population in the wild.
Synonyms
A reddish-grey wolf from the southeastern United States called the red wolf
A reddish grey wolf that lives in southwestern North America
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'red' (a color) modifying 'wolf' (an animal), so it denotes a wolf with red/reddish coloration. This simple color + noun descriptive pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English noun modification, making it immediately clear to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
Red wolf comes from the animal's appearance: red for its reddish-grey fur and wolf because it is a wolf, so the name means 'a wolf with red fur'.