Other forms: wolverines
A wolverine is a fierce heavily built animal of northern forests. A hunting wolverine, the wolverine's tracks, a wolverine's strength.
It is the largest of the weasel family, weighs less than a medium dog and will drive a bear off a kill, which is where its reputation comes from. It ranges enormous distances across the Arctic and is rarely seen. Michigan is nicknamed the Wolverine State.
1nounwolverineA fierce heavily built animal of northern forests.
“A wolverine can survive the long, freezing winters of the far north.”
wolverine is an animal.
An alteration of an older wolvering, built on wolf, for an animal thought to be wolf-like in its ferocity.
Built from
1619; alteration of earlier wolvering (1574), diminutive of wolver (“ravenous or savage animal; person who behaves like a wolf”) (1593), ultimately from wolf.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA