native bear
Britishnoun
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The native bear is in evidence throughout Eastern Australia, from Queensland to Victoria.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Balcun however means native bear according to Mathew126.
From Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia by Thomas, Northcote Whitridge
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
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
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