native bear
Britishnoun
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The native bear is in evidence throughout Eastern Australia, from Queensland to Victoria.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Australians have, properly speaking, no bears, though the animal called the native bear is looked up to by the aborigines with superstitious regard.
From Custom and Myth by Lang, Andrew
"They were hungry for their native bear meat."
From The Main Chance by Nicholson, Meredith
Laura had rescued it and reared it; it followed her like a dog; and she was only less devoted to it than she had been to a native bear which died under her hands.
From The Getting of Wisdom by Richardson, Henry Handel
A wee little native bear, barely a foot long,—a little gray beast, comical beyond expression, with broad flapped ears,—sits on a tree within reach.
From Stories of Childhood by Johnson, Rossiter
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