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dog-bears

dog-bears is the plural of dog-bear.

Meaning of dog-bear

Noun

dog-bear (plural dog-bears)

  1. An extinct doglike species of bear found in Europe, Asia and North America during the Miocene epoch; a hemicyonine.
    • The dog-bears (hemicyonines) looked like bulky, short-tailed dogs, but were in fact related to bears, and if this is not confusing enough, there was also a group of bear-dogs (amphycyonids).2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 87

Questions about dog-bears

What is dog-bears the plural of?
Dog-bears is the plural of dog-bear.

Words near dog-bears in the dictionary

  1. dog's-tail grass
  2. dog's-tail grasses
  3. dog-and-pony show
  4. dog-and-pony shows
  5. dog-bear
  6. dog-bears
  7. dog-bee
  8. dog-bees
  9. dog-belt
  10. dog-belts
  11. dog-bread

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