/wool'veuh reen", wool"veuh reen'/ , n.
1. Also called carcajou . a stocky, carnivorous North American mammal, Gulo luscus, of the weasel family, having blackish, shaggy hair with white markings.
2. ( cap. ) a native or inhabitant of Michigan (the Wolverine State) (used as a nickname).
[ 1565-75; alter. of earlier wolvering (with -INE 2 for -ING 3 ), obscure deriv. of WOLF ]