short-faced bear

noun

A member of a subfamily of Ursidae that contains one living representative, the spectacled bear.

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Meanings

nounshort-faced bear (plural short-faced bears)

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
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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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