Definitions
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- adjective having the approximate size of a wolf
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Examples
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A huge, leathery form fluttered past, a wolf-sized bat with a feline face, thick fur, and incisors as long as a finger.
THE SUNDERING RICHARD A. KNAAK 2005
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Chaka pulled his belt knife and cut into the wolf-sized creature's rear leg bone.
Beowulf's Children Niven, Larry 1995
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High Plains, Texas, followed by a dying wolf-sized animal that did not look like a wolf.
Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas R. A. Lafferty 1958
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Its teeth were still wolf-sized, however, and "it probably behaved more like a wolf than a dog."
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Thirty species have been found at the Kimball site, ranging from three-toed horses, lions, rhinos and small llamas to species of camel, horned rodents, a wolf-sized bone-crushing dog and a tusk from a four-tusked elephant.
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Other readers pounced like wolf-sized Dobermans on an intruder.
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Other readers pounced like wolf-sized Dobermans on an intruder.
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It is a fossil skull from a wolf-sized creature called
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It is a fossil skull from a wolf-sized creature called
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In that region, paleontologists have discovered many semiaquatic protowhales deemed to be charter members in cetacean diversification, including wolf-sized creatures that delved into streams about 50 million years ago (
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