| 单词 | cinnamon bear |
| 释义 | > as lemmascinnamon bear cinnamon bear n. a cinnamon-coloured variety of the common black bear of North America. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Ursidae (bear) > [noun] > genus Ursus > ursus arctos > black bear Cuff1811 cinnamon bear1823 Cuffee1824 cinnamon1855 muskwa1861 1823 J. Sabine in J. Franklin Narr. Journey Shores Polar Sea 648 Individuals vary in colour from black to different shades of brown, and are known to the traders under the different names of Black, Brown, Cinnamon, and Grey Bears. 1829 J. Richardson Fauna Boreali-Americana I. 15 The Cinnamon Bear of the Fur Traders is considered by the Indians to be an accidental variety of this species [Ursus americanus]. 1855 F. S. Marryat Mountains & Molehills 253 A long-expected fight had come off between a grizzly bear and a cinnamon bear. 1909 ‘O. Henry’ Roads of Destiny xviii. 309 He was dancing like a cinnamon bear. 1936 D. McCowan Animals Canad. Rockies xxxiii. 288 Formerly it was believed that the so called cinnamon bear was a distinct species but such is not the case: the cinnamon bear is simply a reddish-haired black bear. < as lemmas |
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