native bear
Britishnoun
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The native bear is in evidence throughout Eastern Australia, from Queensland to Victoria.
From Time Magazine Archive
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 Henry Lawson
What's this?" exclaimed the trooper—"an infant, I declare;" Said Morgan, "'Tis the carcase of an old man native bear.
From Saltbush Bill, J. P. by A. B. (Andrew Barton) Paterson
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 Carl Lumholtz
Goola, the native bear, has burrandang for the male and goola dhoorook for the female.
From The Gundungurra Language by R. H. (Robert Hamilton) Mathews
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