Black Bear

Definitions: Black Bear

Black Bear

Noun

1. Black bear of central and eastern Asia.

2. Brown to black North American bear; smaller and less ferocious than the brown bear.

Synonyms: Black Bear

Synonyms: American black bear (n), Asiatic black bear (n), Euarctos americanus (n), Selenarctos thibetanus (n), Ursus americanus (n), Ursus thibetanus (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Black Bear

English words defined with "black bear": American black bear, Asiatic black bear ♦ cinnamon bear ♦ Euarctos americanus ♦ Isabella moth ♦ Letterwood ♦ Musquaw ♦ Selenarctos thibetanus, sloth bear, Sun bear ♦ Ursus americanus, Ursus thibetanus ♦ White miller, woolly bear. (references)

Specialty definitions using "black bear": Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal ♦ Six-hooped Pot ♦ tree. (references)

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Modern Usage: Black Bear

Domain	Usage
Tongue Twisters	A big black bug bit a big black bear. Where's the big black bear the big black bug bit? (references; author: unknown)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Black Bear

Domain	Title
Books	Bear: Baiting & Trapping Black Bear (reference) Do-It-Yourself Black Bear Baiting & Hunting (reference) Black Bear Cub (reference) Status, Management, and Commercialization of the American Black Bear (Ursus Americanus (Ursus Americanus) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Authorized International Edition of the Soyuzmultfilm Library (in Russian) Vol 55: Red Riding Hood, Mashenika and Black Bear, Once There Lived a Grandmother's Goat, Capricious Princess (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Black Bear

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Photo Album: Black Bear

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Black bear at triangulation station Patsy.Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.		Black bear at Taku Glacier Lodge.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.
	Fish and Wildlife Service Vessel BLACK BEAR at Petersburg, Alaska.Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.		Rogue River - Black Bear.Credit: Unknown.
	A black bear feeding station.Credit: Unknown.		Louisiana Black Bear.Credit: Washington DC Library.
	A Panorama of the Hoy oil field on Black Bear Creek near Enid, Okla.Credit: Library of Congress.		B.I.V. from Black Bear Mountain, F. Chain, N.Y.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Expressions: Black Bear

Expressions using "black bear": american black bear ♦ asiatic black bear. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Black Bear

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
black bear	1,204
black bear hunting	290
black bear hamster	127
black bear hunt	25
black bear diner	15
black bear cub	14
picture of american black bear	6
black bear lake	6
black bear art	5
black bear country club	4
alaska black bear hunt	4
maine black bear hunt	4
best western black bear inn	4
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Black Bear

Language		Translations for "black bear"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		underart af kravebjoern (Asiatic black bear). (various references)

Dutch		kraagbeer (Asiatic black bear). (various references)

French		ours du tibet (Asiatic black bear), ours � collier (Asiatic black bear). (various references)

German		Belutschistan-Kragenbaer (Asiatic black bear). (various references)

Greek		μαύρη θιβετιανή αρκούδα (Asiatic black bear), αρκούδα των Iμαλαΐων (Asiatic black bear). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�'熊 , アメリカ熊 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		くろぐま, くろくま, アメリカぐま. (various references)

Mohawk		wahkwari'tahóntsi. (various references)

Pig Latin		ackblay earbay

Portuguese		urso-escuro. (various references)

Spanish		oso negro. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Black Bear

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-b-b-c-e-k-l-r"
	-1 letter: bareback.
	-2 letters: blacker, clabber.
	-3 letters: arable, backer, balker, barbal, barbel, calker, lacker, rabble, rackle.
	-4 letters: aback, abler, acerb, akela, alack, areal, areca, babel, babka, baker, baler, barbe, black, blare, bleak, blear, brace, brake, break, cabal, caber, cable, carle, clear, clerk, craal, crake, creak, kabab, kabar, kebab, kebar, kraal, labra, lacer, laker.
	-5 letters: abba, abbe, able.
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