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词汇 wolverine
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Definition of wolverine in English:

wolverine

nounˈwʊlvəriːnˌwʊlvəˈrin
  • A heavily built short-legged carnivorous mammal with a long brown coat and a bushy tail, native to northern tundra and forests in Eurasia and North America.

    狼獾,貂熊

    Gulo gulo, family Mustelidae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Pugnacious, bold, and curious, like other weasels, the wolverine is omnivorous and consumes a wide range of edible roots and berries, small game, and fish.
    • Fishers are among the least understood of the weasel family, or mustelids, which also includes martens, minks, ermines, ferrets, badgers, otters, and wolverines.
    • It is a predator's showcase, home not just to wolves and grizzlies, but wolverines, lynx, bobcat, marten, fisher, black bear, mountain lion, golden eagle, bald eagle, coyote, fox, weasel.
    • Copeland, the U.S. Forest Service researcher, and other scientists are studying how wolverines cover these immense distances and connect seemingly isolated populations as they roam.
    • Murkowski says his bill poses no danger to the migratory birds, caribou, wolverines, musk oxen, polar and grizzly bears that live in the Refuge, but a look 60 miles to the west, location of the Prudhoe Bay oil fields, proves him wrong.
    • The weasel family includes such colourful characters as otters, wolverines, skunks, minks and badgers.
    • Especially vulnerable are large, far-ranging carnivores like grizzly bears, mountain lions, panthers, wolverines, and lynx - animals that may travel 100 miles in just a few days.
    • Brown and black bears, wolves, wolverines and mountain goats roam the mountains, while millions of migratory birds rest and feed along mudflats and estuaries.
    • The bear, wolf, coyote, fisher, wolverine, otter, and lynx prey upon the beaver who is, nevertheless, a powerful antagonist when at bay.
    • Black bears, grizzly bears, polar bears, wolverines, mountain lions, a number of snakes and even lynx, badgers and black flies might kill you in the wild in Canada.
    • Bobcats, wolverines, and fishers, that know how to flip the animal on its back and expose its unprotected underside, are the most adept at killing porcupines.
    • The delta is a stopover for as many as 16 million migrating shorebirds and waterfowl every year and home to numerous other species, including wolves, wolverines, lynx and sea lions.
    • They are hunted by coyotes, badgers, foxes, owls, and wolverines.
    • It's the mascot of the University of Michigan's college football team, but it's unlikely you'll see a wolverine in the Wolverine State - or most of the rest of the country, for that matter.
    • Roads fragment wildlife habitat, eliminating creatures that require big tracts of undeveloped land such as forest birds, elk, caribou, lynx, wolves, wolverines, and grizzlies.
    • Whereas the largest are fairly well researched, knowledge of the fisher, wolverine, river otter, mink, lynx, bobcat, and raccoon is almost entirely from anecdote.
    • Predators of erethizontids include mustelids such as martens, minks, wolverines, ermine, weasels, and fishers.
    • The area's most famous animal resident is, naturally, the reindeer, but wolverines, arctic foxes and bears also thrive in the region's wilds.
    • Wolves, wolverines, and brown bears crisscross its terrain.
    • The researchers discovered shards of bone from mammoths, musk ox, brown bear, wolverine, rhinoceros, hares, bison, horses, reindeer, and cave lion.

Origin

Late 16th century (earlier as wolvering): formed obscurely from wolv-, plural stem of wolf.

Definition of wolverine in US English:

wolverine

nounˌwʊlvəˈrinˌwo͝olvəˈrēn
  • 1A heavily built short-legged carnivorous mammal with a shaggy dark coat and a bushy tail, native to the tundra and forests of arctic and subarctic regions.

    狼獾,貂熊

    Gulo luscus of North America and G. gulo of Europe, family Mustelidae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They are hunted by coyotes, badgers, foxes, owls, and wolverines.
    • Especially vulnerable are large, far-ranging carnivores like grizzly bears, mountain lions, panthers, wolverines, and lynx - animals that may travel 100 miles in just a few days.
    • Brown and black bears, wolves, wolverines and mountain goats roam the mountains, while millions of migratory birds rest and feed along mudflats and estuaries.
    • Wolves, wolverines, and brown bears crisscross its terrain.
    • It's the mascot of the University of Michigan's college football team, but it's unlikely you'll see a wolverine in the Wolverine State - or most of the rest of the country, for that matter.
    • Bobcats, wolverines, and fishers, that know how to flip the animal on its back and expose its unprotected underside, are the most adept at killing porcupines.
    • Predators of erethizontids include mustelids such as martens, minks, wolverines, ermine, weasels, and fishers.
    • The area's most famous animal resident is, naturally, the reindeer, but wolverines, arctic foxes and bears also thrive in the region's wilds.
    • Fishers are among the least understood of the weasel family, or mustelids, which also includes martens, minks, ermines, ferrets, badgers, otters, and wolverines.
    • It is a predator's showcase, home not just to wolves and grizzlies, but wolverines, lynx, bobcat, marten, fisher, black bear, mountain lion, golden eagle, bald eagle, coyote, fox, weasel.
    • The bear, wolf, coyote, fisher, wolverine, otter, and lynx prey upon the beaver who is, nevertheless, a powerful antagonist when at bay.
    • Black bears, grizzly bears, polar bears, wolverines, mountain lions, a number of snakes and even lynx, badgers and black flies might kill you in the wild in Canada.
    • The researchers discovered shards of bone from mammoths, musk ox, brown bear, wolverine, rhinoceros, hares, bison, horses, reindeer, and cave lion.
    • Roads fragment wildlife habitat, eliminating creatures that require big tracts of undeveloped land such as forest birds, elk, caribou, lynx, wolves, wolverines, and grizzlies.
    • Pugnacious, bold, and curious, like other weasels, the wolverine is omnivorous and consumes a wide range of edible roots and berries, small game, and fish.
    • Whereas the largest are fairly well researched, knowledge of the fisher, wolverine, river otter, mink, lynx, bobcat, and raccoon is almost entirely from anecdote.
    • The delta is a stopover for as many as 16 million migrating shorebirds and waterfowl every year and home to numerous other species, including wolves, wolverines, lynx and sea lions.
    • Murkowski says his bill poses no danger to the migratory birds, caribou, wolverines, musk oxen, polar and grizzly bears that live in the Refuge, but a look 60 miles to the west, location of the Prudhoe Bay oil fields, proves him wrong.
    • The weasel family includes such colourful characters as otters, wolverines, skunks, minks and badgers.
    • Copeland, the U.S. Forest Service researcher, and other scientists are studying how wolverines cover these immense distances and connect seemingly isolated populations as they roam.
  • 2Wolverineinformal A native or inhabitant of Michigan.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Any Democrat in the crowd or among the Wolverines would have cringed at the contrast.

Origin

Late 16th century (earlier as wolvering): formed obscurely from wolv-, plural stem of wolf.

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