short-faced bear en · NOUN
Meanings
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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:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| short-faced bears | Number=Plur | lexicographic |