black bear
noun
a medium-sized North American bear, Ursus (Euarctos) americanus, relatively common in uninhabited mountainous areas, ranging from light brown to black with a straight brown muzzle: northern populations may be gray to near-white.
Origin of black bear
First recorded in 1735–45
Words nearby black bear
black as night,
black balsam,
black basaltes,
black bass,
black bean,
black bear,
black beauty,
black beetle,
black belt,
black bile,
black bindweed
Example sentences from the Web for black bear
But as he feasted on the pions one morning after a gale, a great Black-bear came marching down the hill.
The Biography of a Grizzly |Ernest Seton-ThompsonThe brown one is both fierce and carnivorous, but the black-bear is only wild, and constantly refuses to eat flesh.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VI (of 10) |Georges Louis Leclerc de BuffonWe frequently meet with the brown bear in the Alps, but the black-bear very rarely.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VI (of 10) |Georges Louis Leclerc de BuffonIf he could only have killed that Black-bear that had driven him from his woods!
The Biography of a Grizzly |Ernest Seton-Thompson
British Dictionary definitions for black bear
black bear
noun
American black bear
a bear, Euarctos (or Ursus) americanus, inhabiting forests of North America. It is smaller and less ferocious than the brown bear
Asiatic black bear
a bear, Selenarctos thibetanus, of central and E Asia, whose coat is black with a pale V-shaped mark on the chest