English

Noun

eastern wolf ‎(plural eastern wolves)

1. a fertile hybrid pseudo-species of wolf resulting from the crossbreeding of gray wolves with coyotes, whose contributions to the eastern wolf genome is roughly 75% to 25%, respectively; which is found on the East Coast and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

Synonyms

• Canis lycaon (formal name for the common name "eastern wolf")

Coordinate terms

• red wolf
• gray wolf