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white bear Chiefly N. Amer.
a. = polar bear s.v. polar a. b.
1600Hakluyt Princ. Navigations III. 6 The soile is barren in some places,..but it is full of white beares. 1823Canad. Mag. I. 394 The great white bear takes refuge in the most icy climates. 1860P. H. Gosse Romance Nat. Hist. 62 The white bear, seated on a solitary iceberg in the Polar Sea. 1953W. B. Mowery Tales of Mounted Police 149 [He had] several livid weals across his left cheek where a white bear had once clawed him.
b. A grizzly bear (Ursus horribilis) in a light-coloured phase.
1791J. Long Voy. Indian Interpreter 95 The large white bear, commonly called the grizly bear, is a very dangerous animal. 1852J. Reynolds Hist. Illinois 172 He was destroyed there [in the Rocky Mountains] by a white bear. 1952J. Jennings Strange Brigade (1954) 105 There were also red deer or biche, and white bears and white partridges. |