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gray bear
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1a
a large and, often, ferocious bear, Ursus horribilis, nowadays largely confined to the northern Rockies.
See: grizzly bear
Quotations
1819
The grey bear differs but little in shape, from those of a smaller kind and of a different colour . . . a beautiful lively silver grey.
1936
Dr. Richardson, naturalist to the Franklin Expedition of 1830, tells of a man at Edmonton being scalped by a Grey Bear.
1b
the hide of this animal.
Quotations
1855
The freemen traded a few rats and a grey bear
2
a color phase of the black bear.
See: black bear
Quotations
1821
Individuals vary in colour from black to different shades of brown, and are known to the traders under the different names of Black, Brown, Cinnamon, and Grey Bears.