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Definition of Skunk bear

1. Noun. Stocky shaggy-coated North American carnivorous mammal.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Skunk Bear

Literary usage of Skunk bear

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of a reconnaissance from Carroll, Montana territory, on the upper by William Ludlow (1876)
"... SKUNK-BEAR. No living individuals of this species were seen by any of the party ; but we noticed their tracks quite often while in the park, ..."

2. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1894)
"In Wyoming he is called the skunk bear, not a bad name; but the Indians of northern Washington go a little farther and call him the MOUNTAIN DEVIL. ..."

3. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"... SKU—SKY Skunk-Bear. (Gulo luscus.') The wolverine; so called in the Far Wes.t. Also known as the Carcajou. ..."

4. College zoology by Robert William Hegner (1918)
"... toad, lizard, spider, rat, skunk, bear, and other bees are all enemies of the honey-bee. Weak or neglected hives are especially liable to attack, ..."

5. Churchman by Walker Purton, Church Society (1880)
"... or " mountain lion," the lynx, the wolverine, or " skunk bear," a ferocious little animal, with formidable claws, the mountain-sheep, and the antelope. ..."

6. Elementary Textbook of Economic Zoology and Entomology by Vernon Lyman Kellogg, Rennie Wilbur Doane (1915)
"The wolverine, or skunk-bear, Gulo luscus, looks not unlike a large skunk or a badger except that it is without stripes. It occurs throughout the west and ..."

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