native bear

British  

noun

1. an Australian name for koala

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native bear

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Andrew Lang

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

The native bear, as a marsupial sloth is termed, is the most innocent-looking of animals, and the most harmless, feeding on the leaves of the gum.

From Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil by Howard Willoughby

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 Edward Ellis Morris

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