dog-bear

noun

An extinct doglike species of bear found in Europe, Asia and North America during the Miocene epoch; a hemicyonine.

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Meanings

noundog-bear (plural dog-bears)

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
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