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Arctic bear en · NOUN

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1. A polar bear.
   • I once before compared the posterior aspect of the Arctic bear to an elephant's. All my mess-mates used the same comparison. The extreme roundness of his back and haunches, with the columnar character of the legs, and the round expansion of the feet, give you the impression of a small elephant. 2009, Elisha Kent Kane, Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack, →ISBN, page 64:
   • Further, the terrestrial niche for an Arctic bear is already occupied and there are indications that barren-ground grizzlies are already advancing northward. 2012, Michael MacCracken, Sudden and Disruptive Climate Change, →ISBN:
   • Upon coming up with the floe, we perceived that it was in possession of a gigantic creature of the race of the Arctic bear, but far exceeding in size the largest of these animals. 1838, [Edgar Allan Poe], chapter XVII, in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 146:
2. Any bear that lives in the Arctic.

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