native bear

British  

noun

1. an Australian name for koala

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native bear

The native bear is in evidence throughout Eastern Australia, from Queensland to Victoria.

From Time Magazine Archive

Doctor Tjon Akieh, who came here from Surinam, had some amusing monkeys, a native bear, tamer than most cats, and a very quiet deer.

From Through Central Borneo; an Account of Two Years' Travel in the Land of Head-Hunters Between the Years 1913 and 1917 by Lumholtz, Carl

A wee little native bear, barely eight inches long,—a little grey beast, comical beyond expression, with broad flapped ears, sits on a tree within reach.

From Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn by Kingsley, Henry

The native bear resided in a packing case, nailed on the top of a stump nearly opposite the hut door.

From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by Macfarlane, J.

The ground was cut up as if rooted by pigs; yet Cleopatra was only just warming to his work; and the whaler was still clinging to the saddle like a native bear to a branch.

From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph