native bear
Britishnoun
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The native bear is in evidence throughout Eastern Australia, from Queensland to Victoria.
From Time Magazine Archive
Look, high up in the branches of that tall tree is a native bear!
From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Morris, Edward Ellis
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
Jim swung to a sapling and went up it like a native bear; it was a young sapling, and Jim couldn't safely get more than ten or twelve feet from the ground.
From Joe Wilson and His Mates by Lawson, Henry
A wee little native bear, barely a foot long,—a little grey beast, comical beyond expression, with broad flapped ears,—sits on a tree within reach.
From The Lost Child by Kingsley, Henry
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