short-faced bear

English

Noun

short-faced bear (plural short-faced bears)

  1. An in the genus †Arctodus of extinct bears from Pleistocene North America,.
    • 2022, Thomas Halliday, Otherworlds, Penguin, published 2023, page 12:
      The biggest of the Alaskan short-faced bears weighed over a ton, three times the weight of the biggest modern-day predator on land, the Siberian tiger, and four times that of an adult male grizzly bear.
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