单词 | medicine wolf |
释义 | > as lemmasmedicine wolf medicine wolf n. U.S. (among Plains Indians) a coyote. ΚΠ 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville II. xv. 147 This little, whining, feast-smelling animal, is..called among Indians the ‘medicine wolf’. 1860 in Colorado Mag. (1938) 15 30 Went up town and saw a young grizzly bear, a young swift or medicine wolf much resembling a fox. 1995 Backpacker (Electronic ed.) 1 Sept. 144 Rick had stumbled upon a coyote caught and dying in a leg-hold trap... The little ‘medicine wolf’ wobbled and flopped over. < as lemmas |
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