black bear

noun

1. a medium-sized North American bear, Ursus (Euarctos ) americanus, relatively common in uninhabited mountainous areas, ranging from light brown to black with a straight brown muzzle: northern populations may be gray to near-white.

black bear

noun

1. a bear, Euarctos (or Ursus ) americanus , inhabiting forests of North America. It is smaller and less ferocious than the brown bear

2. a bear, Selenarctos thibetanus , of central and E Asia, whose coat is black with a pale V-shaped mark on the chest

Word History and Origins

Origin of black bear¹

First recorded in 1735–45

Example Sentences

From 1900 to 2009, just 63 people died from a black bear attack in North America, according to a study in the Journal of Wildlife Management.

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We passed the camera and transmitter gear which had been set up to observe not only monkeys but black bears, boar and many other wild species in Shennongjia.

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Yes, I was living in a tent for two weeks, communing with the pine trees and black bears of the Sierra.

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West said Fish and Wildlife was unaware of any male black bears in the Santa Monica Mountains.

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A 2-month-old orphaned black bear cub was rescued from the woods and is being raised by humans dressed as bears at the San Diego Humane Society’s Ramona Wildlife Center.

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