wolf-mother

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Noun

wolf-mother (plural wolf-mothers)

A female wolf that has mothered or is mothering cubs.
- 1906 May–October, Jack London, White Fang, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., published October 1906, →OCLC, part 3 (The Gods of the Wild), page 176:
  A wolf-mother was not made to remember her cubs of a year or so before.

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