Jackal vs. Wolf

Jackalnoun

Any of certain wild canids of the genus Canis, native to the tropical Old World and smaller than a wolf.

Jackalnoun

A person who performs menial/routine tasks, a dogsbody.

Jackalnoun

(pejorative) A person who behaves in an opportunistic way; especially a base collaborator.

Jackalnoun

A jack (the playing card).

Jackalverb

To perform menial or routine tasks

Jackalnoun

Any one of several species of carnivorous animals inhabiting Africa and Asia, related to the dog and wolf. They are cowardly, nocturnal, and gregarious. They feed largely on carrion, and are noted for their piercing and dismal howling.

Jackalnoun

One who does mean work for another's advantage, as jackals were once thought to kill game which lions appropriated.

Jackalnoun

Old World nocturnal canine mammal closely related to the dog; smaller than a wolf; sometimes hunts in a pack but usually singly or as a member of a pair

Jackalnoun

a slender long-legged wild dog that feeds on carrion, game, and fruit and often hunts cooperatively, found in Africa and southern Asia.

Jackal

Jackals are medium-sized omnivorous mammals of the subtribe Canina, which also includes wolves and the domestic dog, among other species. While the word has historically been used for many small canines, in modern use it most commonly refers to three species: the closely related black-backed jackal and side-striped jackal of sub-Saharan-Africa, and the golden jackal of south-central Europe and Asia.

Wolfnoun

The gray wolf, specifically all subspecies of the gray wolf (Canis lupus) that are not dingoes or dogs.

Wolfnoun

A man who makes amorous advances to many women.

Wolfnoun

(music) A wolf tone or wolf note.

Wolfnoun

One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvae of several species of beetles and grain moths.

Wolfnoun

(figurative) Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation.

Wolfnoun

A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.

Wolfnoun

(obsolete) An eating ulcer or sore. See lupus.

Wolfnoun

A willying machine.

Wolfverb

(transitive) To devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously.

Wolfverb

To make amorous advances to many women; to hit on women; to cruise for sex.

Wolfverb

(intransitive) To hunt for wolves.

Wolfnoun

Any one of several species of wild and savage carnivores belonging to the genus Canis and closely allied to the common dog. The best-known and most destructive species are the European wolf (Canis lupus), the American gray, or timber, wolf (Canis occidentalis), and the prairie wolf, or coyote. Wolves often hunt in packs, and may thus attack large animals and even man.

Wolfnoun

One of the destructive, and usually hairy, larvæ of several species of beetles and grain moths; as, the bee wolf.

Wolfnoun

Fig.: Any very ravenous, rapacious, or destructive person or thing; especially, want; starvation; as, they toiled hard to keep the wolf from the door.

Wolfnoun

A white worm, or maggot, which infests granaries.

Wolfnoun

An eating ulcer or sore. Cf. Lupus.

Wolfnoun

The harsh, howling sound of some of the chords on an organ or piano tuned by unequal temperament.

Wolfnoun

A willying machine.

Wolfnoun

any of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs

Wolfnoun

Austrian composer (1860-1903)

Wolfnoun

German classical scholar who claimed that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed by several authors (1759-1824)

Wolfnoun

a man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women

Wolfnoun

a cruelly rapacious person

Wolfverb

eat hastily;

Wolf

The wolf (Canis lupus), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty subspecies of Canis lupus have been recognized, and gray wolves, as colloquially understood, comprise non-domestic/feral subspecies.