wolf-mother

wolf-mother (plural wolf-mothers)

1. 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.