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short-faced bear

short-faced bear noun: a member of a subfamily of Ursidae that contains one living representative, the spectacled bear.

Noun

short-faced bear (plural short-faced bears)

  1. A member of a subfamily of Ursidae that contains one living representative, the spectacled bear.
    • The biggest of the Alaskan short-faced bears weighed over a ton, three times the weight of the biggest modern-day predator on land, the Siberian tiger, and four times that of an adult male grizzly bear.2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 12

Forms of short-faced bear

pluralshort-faced bears

Questions about short-faced bear

What does short-faced bear mean?
Short-faced bear means a member of a subfamily of Ursidae that contains one living representative, the spectacled bear.
What part of speech is short-faced bear?
Short-faced bear is a noun.
What is the plural of short-faced bear?
The plural of short-faced bear is short-faced bears.

Words near short-faced bear in the dictionary

  1. short-eared foxes
  2. short-eared owl
  3. short-eared owls
  4. short-eared zorro
  5. short-eared zorros
  6. short-faced bear
  7. short-faced bears
  8. short-faced kangaroo
  9. short-fall
  10. short-falls
  11. short-fetched

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