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Carcajou

noun
1.
Stocky shaggy-coated North American carnivorous mammal.  Synonyms: Gulo luscus, skunk bear, wolverine.






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"Carcajou" Quotes from Famous Books



... wolverene "carcajou;" while among the Orkney and Scotch servants of the Hudson's Bay Company he is oftener known as the "quickhatch." It is supposed that both, these names are corruptions of the Cree word okee-coo-haw-gew (the name of the wolverene among the Indians of that ...
— Popular Adventure Tales • Mayne Reid

... and sticking close together moved on—dodging another gray wolf and a coyote, and an animal that looked like a carcajou or wolverine, which snarled ...
— Pluck on the Long Trail - Boy Scouts in the Rockies • Edwin L. Sabin

... these same trails and served The Company. Dusky feet trod these paths when good Queen Anne ruled in England, men made toilsome portages up these waterways, and here Crowfoot and Running Rabbit and Gaston Lamousette kept undisturbed the tenour of their way and matched wits with Carcajou the wolverine. ...
— The New North • Agnes Deans Cameron

... said he, "this thing ain't right at all. She got into all this trouble on our account, and we're riding canoe here slick as carcajou in a pork cache while she pegs along ...
— The Silent Places • Stewart Edward White



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