cave bear en · NOUN
Meanings
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A large extinct species of bear, †Ursus spelaeus.
The more striking phenomena first and most strongly impress the mind, which contrasts for example, the great Cave-Bears of Europe with the actual Brown Bear, the Megatheriods of South America with the small existing sloths, and the gigantic Glyptodons with the Armadillos.
1851 June 11, The Geelong Advertiser, Victoria, page 1, column 2:It begs the question: why did the Neanderthals “fail,” since the cave-dwelling hominin, like the cave bear, faltered during the last glaciation, not afterward?
2012, Lydia Pyne, Stephen J. Pyne, chapter 7, in The Last Lost World, Penguin, →ISBN:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| cave bears | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (12)
fr ours des cavernes (Ursus spelaeus) · fi luolakarhu (Ursus spelaeus) · nb hulebjørn (Ursus spelaeus) · nl holenbeer (Ursus spelaeus) · it orso delle caverne (Ursus spelaeus) · sv grottbjörn (Ursus spelaeus) · de Höhlenbär (Ursus spelaeus) · ru пеще́рный медве́дь (Ursus spelaeus) · nn hulebjørn (Ursus spelaeus) · da hulebjørn (Ursus spelaeus) · nl grottenbeer (Ursus spelaeus) · es oso cavernario (Ursus spelaeus)