black bear

noun

a medium-sized North American bear, Ursus (Euarctos) americanus, relatively common in uninhabited mountainous areas, ranging from light brown to black with a straight brown muzzle: northern populations may be gray to near-white.

Origin of black bear

First recorded in 1735–45

Words nearby black bear

black balsam, black basaltes, black bass, blackbead, black bean, black bear, Blackbeard, black beauty, blackbeetle, black-bellied plover, blackbelly rosefish

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Example sentences from the Web for black bear

But as he feasted on the pions one morning after a gale, a great Black-bear came marching down the hill.
The Biography of a Grizzly|Ernest Seton-Thompson
The brown one is both fierce and carnivorous, but the black-bear is only wild, and constantly refuses to eat flesh.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VI (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
We frequently meet with the brown bear in the Alps, but the black-bear very rarely.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VI (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
If he could only have killed that Black-bear that had driven him from his woods!
The Biography of a Grizzly|Ernest Seton-Thompson

British Dictionary definitions for black bear

black bear

noun

American black bear a bear, Euarctos (or Ursus) americanus, inhabiting forests of North America. It is smaller and less ferocious than the brown bear

Asiatic black bear a bear, Selenarctos thibetanus, of central and E Asia, whose coat is black with a pale V-shaped mark on the chest

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单词	black bear
释义	black bear noun a medium-sized North American bear, Ursus (Euarctos) americanus, relatively common in uninhabited mountainous areas, ranging from light brown to black with a straight brown muzzle: northern populations may be gray to near-white. Origin of black bear First recorded in 1735–45 Words nearby black bear black balsam, black basaltes, black bass, blackbead, black bean, black bear, Blackbeard, black beauty, blackbeetle, black-bellied plover, blackbelly rosefish Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for black bear But as he feasted on the pions one morning after a gale, a great Black-bear came marching down the hill. The Biography of a Grizzly\|Ernest Seton-Thompson The brown one is both fierce and carnivorous, but the black-bear is only wild, and constantly refuses to eat flesh. Buffon's Natural History. Volume VI (of 10)\|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon We frequently meet with the brown bear in the Alps, but the black-bear very rarely. Buffon's Natural History. Volume VI (of 10)\|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon If he could only have killed that Black-bear that had driven him from his woods! The Biography of a Grizzly\|Ernest Seton-Thompson British Dictionary definitions for black bear black bear noun American black bear a bear, Euarctos (or Ursus) americanus, inhabiting forests of North America. It is smaller and less ferocious than the brown bear Asiatic black bear a bear, Selenarctos thibetanus, of central and E Asia, whose coat is black with a pale V-shaped mark on the chest Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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