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native bear

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noun

  1. an Australian name for koala

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"They were hungry for their native bear meat."

From The Main Chance by Meredith Nicholson

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 Andrew Lang

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 Henry Handel Richardson

Balcun however means native bear according to Mathew126.

From Kinship Organisations and Group Marriage in Australia by Northcote Whitridge Thomas

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