ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Dog-bear

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Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Dog-bear is a noun meaning An extinct doglike species of bear found in Europe, Asia and North America during the Miocene epoch; a hemicyonine.

Meaning

An extinct doglike species of bear found in Europe, Asia and North America during the Miocene epoch; a hemicyonine.

Example Sentences

The dog-bears (hemicyonines) looked like bulky, short-tailed dogs, but were in fact related to bears, and if this is not confusing enough, there was also a group of bear-dogs (amphycyonids).

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