native bear

British  

noun

1. an Australian name for koala

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Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 fire lit up the undersides of the branches above; a native bear sat in a fork blinking down at it, while the moon above him showed every hair on his ears.

From Over the Sliprails by Lawson, Henry

Goola, the native bear, has burrandang for the male and goola dhoorook for the female.

From The Gundungurra Language by Mathews, R. H. (Robert Hamilton)

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 New Edition by Lang, Andrew