brown bear

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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any of several North American bears, including the grizzly bear, and a color phase of the black bear.

Quotations

1784

Mr. Graham assures me, that the brown Bears, in the inland parts of Hudson's Bay, make great havoc among the Buffaloes.

1958

[He] shot a large brown bear . . . which had been mauling . . . a calf.