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short-faced bears

short-faced bears is the plural of short-faced bear.

Meaning of short-faced 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

Questions about short-faced bears

What is short-faced bears the plural of?
Short-faced bears is the plural of short-faced bear.

Words near short-faced bears in the dictionary

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

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