| wold | (noun) a tract of open rolling country (especially upland) | - |
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| wolf | (noun) any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs | - |
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| (noun) a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women | Synonyms: masher, skirt chaser, woman chaser |
| (noun) a cruelly rapacious person | Synonyms: beast, brute, savage, wildcat |
| (verb) eat hastily | Synonyms: wolf down |
| wolfbane | (noun) poisonous Eurasian perennial herb with broad rounded leaves and yellow flowers and fibrous rootstock | Synonyms: Aconitum lycoctonum, wolf's bane, wolfsbane |
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| wolffish | (noun) large ferocious northern deep-sea food fishes with strong teeth and no pelvic fins | Synonyms: catfish, wolf fish |
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| (noun) large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail | Synonyms: lancet fish, lancetfish |
| wolfhound | (noun) the largest breed of dogs; formerly used to hunt wolves | - |
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| wolfish | (adjective) resembling or characteristic (or considered characteristic) of a wolf | Synonyms: wolflike |
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| (adjective) devouring or craving food in great quantities | Synonyms: edacious, esurient, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, voracious |
| wolfishly | (adverb) in the manner of a wolf | - |
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| wolflike | (adjective) resembling or characteristic (or considered characteristic) of a wolf | Synonyms: wolfish |
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| wolfman | (noun) a monster able to change appearance from human to wolf and back again | Synonyms: loup-garou, lycanthrope, werewolf |
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| wolfram | (noun) a heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite | Synonyms: atomic number 74, tungsten, W |
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| wolframite | (noun) a mineral consisting of iron and manganese tungstate in crystalline form; the principal ore of tungsten; found in quartz veins associated with granitic rocks | Synonyms: iron manganese tungsten |
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| wolfsbane | (noun) poisonous Eurasian perennial herb with broad rounded leaves and yellow flowers and fibrous rootstock | Synonyms: Aconitum lycoctonum, wolf's bane, wolfbane |
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| wollastonite | (noun) a white or greyish mineral typically found in metamorphic limestone; a silicate of calcium | - |
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| wolverine | (noun) stocky shaggy-coated North American carnivorous mammal | Synonyms: carcajou, Gulo luscus, skunk bear |
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| (noun) musteline mammal of northern Eurasia | Synonyms: glutton, Gulo gulo |